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How to set up and run SQL Server Docker image

April 28, 2021 by

In this article, I am going to discuss in-depth setting up docker and running a SQL Server Docker image. SQL Server, as you might already be aware that it is one of the most popular relational database technologies in today’s world. SQL Server is widely used in various applications that support transactional and analytical workloads. […]

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Setting up a PostgreSQL Database on Mac

April 23, 2021 by

In this article, I am going to discuss different ways in which you can install and setup Postgres Database on a Mac. Postgres is an open-source relational database system that can be used to develop a wide variety of data-based applications. Postgres has been popular for analytical workloads as well since it has support for […]

Overview of Apache Spark Architecture

Introduction to Apache Spark

April 12, 2021 by

In this article, I am going to discuss Apache Spark and how to create robust ETL pipelines for transforming big data. I will start from the very basics of Spark and then provide details on how to install Spark and start building the pipelines. In the later part of the article, I will also discuss […]

An overview of Power BI data models

April 12, 2021 by

Power BI is a business analytics solution provided by Microsoft. It helps you to create data visualizations from various data sources. We can import data from these data sources, create a data model, and prepares reports, visuals. These data sources are as below:

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Working with JSON data in Python

March 30, 2021 by

In this article, I am going to write about the various ways we can work with JSON data in Python. JSON stands for Java Script Object Notation and has become one of the most important data formats to store and transfer data across various systems. This is due to its easy-to-understand structure and also because […]

Implementing Tune Model Hyperparameters in Azure Machine Learning

Tune Model Hyperparameters for Azure Machine Learning models

March 25, 2021 by

Introduction In this article, we will be discussing how to Tune Model Hyperparameters to choose the best parameters for Azure Machine Learning models. During this article series on Azure Machine Learning, we have discussed multiple machine learning techniques such as Regression analysis, Classification Analysis and Clustering. Further, we have discussed the basic cleaning techniques, feature […]

Comparison of the Merge Join vs Hash Match Join

Query Optimization Myths

March 23, 2021 by

In this article, we will talk about two query optimization myths and these myths can be changed according to the characteristics of the queries. Every query can exhibit different behaviors according to data distribution, SQL Server version, database settings, and other tons of parameters therefore the fixed ideas may not help to overcome the query […]

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An introduction to AWS Athena

March 19, 2021 by

In this article, I am going to introduce AWS Athena, a service offered by Amazon which allows users to query data from S3 using standard SQL syntax. AWS is considered to be a leader in the cloud computing world. Almost more than a hundred services are being offered by Amazon which offers competitive performance and […]

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Learn MySQL: Run multiple instances of MySQL Server on Windows 10

March 11, 2021 by

This article explains how we can run multiple instances of the MySQL Server on a single machine. In How to install MySQL database server 8.0.19 on Windows 10 article, I have explained the installation process of MySQL on windows 10. For the demonstration, I have installed MySQL 8.0.19 on my workstation. We can view the […]

EC2 Instance Types

Overview of EC2 Instance Types in AWS

March 8, 2021 by

In this article, I am going to talk about the various EC2 instance types available in AWS. EC2, abbreviated as Elastic Compute Cloud is an IaaS offering from AWS using which customers can provision virtual machines on the cloud using different combinations of CPU, RAM, disk and networking. There are many predefined instance types already […]