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Feed: Featured Blog Posts - AnalyticBridge. Author: Mark McIlroy. Data scientists use a range of tools in their work and some of these eventually require programming. This book, titled The Art and Craft of Computer Programming, is a guide to computer programming. It does not focus on a specific programming language, but instead contains the essential material from a first year Computer Science course. The book is available for free download from the author's personal website www.markmcilroy.com and also in print from Amazon.com. Contents 1. Prelude 5 2. Program Structure 6 2.1. Procedural Languages 62.2. Declarative Languages 172.3. Other Languages 20 ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Phil Weiss. There are many compelling reasons existing SAS users might want to start integrating SAS Viya into their SAS9 programs and applications.  For me, it comes down to ease-of-use, speed, and faster time-to-value.  With the ability to traverse the (necessarily iterative) analytics lifecycle faster than before, we are now able to generate output quicker – better supporting vital decision-making in a reduced timeframe.   In addition to the positive impacts this can have on productivity, it can also change the way we look at current business challenges and how we design possible solutions. Earlier this year I ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Sheeri K. Cabral; Notes/errata/updates for Chapter 7:See the official book errata at http://tahaghoghi.com/LearningMySQL/errata.php – Chapter 7 includes pages 223 – 275. Supplemental blog post – ORDER BY NULL – read the blog post and the comments! GROUP BY and HAVING examples – Supplemental blog post. The example of HAVING in the text shows a use case where HAVING is the same function as WHERE. This blog posts shows examples of HAVING that you cannot do any other way. In the section called “The GROUP BY clause”, on pages 231-232, the book says:“you can count any column ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. If you’ve ever attended the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) annual show, you may have seen the helicopters, armored vehicles, body armor, and firearms. Cloud technology has also become a powerful instrument for justice and public safety. As data becomes more integral to effective emergency response, IACP plays host to a growing number of IT firms contributing to this community’s unique needs.The future of policing will involve collecting and analyzing the troves of data provided by officers and first responders, and putting it to new, productive use. This is ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. More and more websites are requesting personal information and allowing you to make purchases at a touch of a button by storing your credit card information. With that convenience comes significant additional risk. How can you tell whether a site that you’re using has strong security? It can be difficult to identify, but there are a number of ways you can spot the right attitude when it comes to security and user authentication. The Basics: Site Security Certificates The first, easiest way to tell whether a site ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Michael Rabin. On the way to visit a customer recently, I heard a feature on the radio that made me stop and think. The feature was about a fitness chain that was about to open the world's largest gym in Germany. The difference was the membership model. Instead of a monthly membership fee, users would pay with data. As an employee of a data analysis software producer, this raised a lot of questions in my mind: How would it work? What about privacy? How does this change visits to the gym? What are my data worth and what ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Kyle Davis. Exploring the performance of Redis Enterprise with Flash memory extension. With Redis Enterprise, we recently enabled the ability to extend your RAM based storage into flash memory. Don’t confuse this with some form of persistence, this is a way to let Redis break out of the bounds of the server RAM and into Flash storage as needed. With the advances in Flash memory (NVMe-based SSD storage), the performance becomes very viable, although not quite as quick as RAM alone. This allows you to have hybrid storage – data moves between fast RAM and Flash ... Read More

Feed: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team. Author: Arvind Shyamsundar. Authored by Arvind Shyamsundar (Microsoft)Credits: Prasad Wagle, Srinivasa Babu Valluri, Arun Jayapal, Ranga Bondada, Anand Joseph (members of the Sayint by Zen3 team)Reviewers: Nellie Gustafsson, Umachandar Jayachandran, Dimitri Furman (Microsoft) This blog post was inspired our recent work with the Sayint dev team, who are a part of Zen3 Infosolutions. SQLCAT has been working with them in their process of adopting SQL Server 2017. Microsoft introduced the ability to invoke external Python scripts in SQL Server 2017, and this capability to effectively move ‘intelligence’ closer to the data, was a big ... Read More

Feed: Percona Database Performance Blog. Author: Tyler Duzan. Tyler Duzan  | October 19, 2017 |  Posted In: Aurora RDS, Cloud and MySQL, Cloud and NoSQL, Database Poll, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, MySQL PREVIOUS POST Percona latest blog poll asks how you currently host applications and databases. Select an option below, or leave a comment to clarify your deployment! With the increased need for environments that respond more quickly to changing business demands, many enterprises are moving to the cloud and hosted deployments for applications and software in order to offload development and maintenance overhead to a third party. The ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Guest post by Tara Combs, RM Specialist, Alfresco SoftwareThe Managing Government Records Directive (OMB/NARA) sets goals that federal agencies must meet to modernize records management. Complying with the Directive presents opportunities to adopt a 21st century approach based on digitization, automation, open source, and cloud technologies. But the clock is ticking. It’s now time to look ahead to the 2019 deadline for managing records electronically. Modernizing Records Management Alfresco Governance Services, running on Amazon Web Services, is the foundation for modern, compliant records management at the Department of Defense and multiple ... Read More