Microsoft introduced Temporal tables in SQL Server 2016. Temporal tables are system versioned tables that have built-in support for row-level change tracking. We can create a new table as a temporal table or we can convert an existing table into a temporal table. The temporal tables keep the current data into the main table and […]
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In this post, we are going to discuss a new cross-platform and interactive command-line query tool that can be used to communicate with Microsoft SQL Server. Unlike sqlcmd command-line utility, mssql-cli supports cross-platform and can be used on Windows, macOS, Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, and etc. This is an open-source tool and it supports
In the previous chapter, we discussed the T-SQL’s Update statement. Now, in this chapter, we are going to discuss how we can use T-SQL’s DELETE command to delete records from a table in SQL Server. We will also discuss some best practices we need to follow while using the DELETE command in MS SQL Server.
In this post “Interactive Data Analysis with SQL Server using Jupyter Notebooks“, we will demonstrate how we can use Jupyter Notebooks for interactive data analysis with SQL Server. Jupyter notebooks are one of the most useful tools for any Data Scientist/Data Analyst. It supports 40+ programming languages and facilitates web-based interactive programming IDE. We can
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In the previous chapter, we discussed the T-SQL’s Insert statement. Now, in this chapter, we are going to discuss the T-SQL’s UPDATE command. We will discuss how we can use the T-SQL’s Update command with the help of examples. We will also discuss some best practices we need to follow while using the UPDATE command
In this post, we are going to discuss how we can export SQL Server table data to an Excel file or to a CSV file using Python’s pandas library. Prior to SQL Server 2017, we could use one of the below methods to export data from SQL Server to Excel or CSV file: Create an
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Sometimes when we try to restart “SQL Server service” we might get an error “Windows could not stop the SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER) service on Local Computer” with error code and description “Error 1061: The service cannot accept control messages at this time“. In this post, “SQL Server – Error 1061: The service cannot accept control
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Apache Spark is a very powerful general-purpose distributed computing framework. It provides a different kind of data abstractions like RDDs, DataFrames, and DataSets on top of the distributed collection of the data. Spark is highly scalable Big data processing engine which can run on a single cluster to thousands of clusters. To follow this exercise,
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During the installation of SQL Server 2017(Or other versions), we can get an error “The RPC server is unavailable” at the very last step of the installation process while executing the action “DReplayControllerConfigAction_install_postmsi_Cpu64“. “The RPC server unavailable error” might also occur at the “Server Configuration” step during the installation process. However, typically this error occurs
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Resampling time series data in SQL Server using Python’s pandas library In this post, we are going to learn how we can use the power of Python in SQL Server 2017 to resample time series data using Python’s pandas library. Sometimes, we get the sample data (observations) at a different frequency (higher or lower) than
