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Tips for using User-Defined Functions in SQL Server 2019

Tips for using User-Defined Functions in SQL Server 2019 Try to use Scalar UDF Inlining feature. SQL Server 2019 supports Scalar UDF Inlining. This feature automatically transforms scalar UDFs into relational expressions and embeds them in the calling SQL query. This transformation improves the performance of workloads that take advantage of scalar UDFs. A Scalar UDF can be inline when...

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AI-powered Search with spaCy – Part 7

Continuing with the examples in the previous articles in this series, let’s take a closer look at the structure of a sentence that might be submitted by a user when he or she want to learn something. For example, it might be the following sentence: “How to create a Wikipedia page”. You already know that it might be preprocess as...

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How Do I Change an Employee’s Attitude About Work-Hours?

Hello, this is Laura Lee Rose – author of the business and time management books TimePeace: Making peace with time – The Book of Answers: 105 Career Critical Situations – and I am a business and efficiency coach that specializes in time management, project management, and work-life balance strategies. I have an employee who starts work at 7 am and...

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Tips for using full-text search in SQL Server 2019

Tips for using full-text search in SQL Server 2019 Make full-text index population during periods of low database access. Because full-text index population takes some time, these updates should be scheduled during CPU idle time and slow production periods. Reduce the full-text unique key size. To create a full-text index, the table to be indexed must have a unique index....

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How Do I Leave A Company When It Seems Like The Company Will Crumble When I Leave?

This question came from a busy professional. How do I tell my boss I am leaving (when it seems like the company will crumble when I leave)? I admire your loyalty to your boss, but the bottom line is that it should be strictly a business and professional decision. Consider the following: No one is truly indispensable Company survived before...

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AI-powered Search with spaCy – Part 6

Summarizing all those examples you have seen in the previous articles in this series, you should have already a good grasp of how the most common types of request sentences might be processed to extract the phrase that is most relevant for feeding a search engine. Just to recap, you have seen examples that rely on using linguistic features extracted...

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When to Explore

This question came from a professional. If you are the boss and one of your employees calls in the morning and says that they “didn’t feel good” when they woke up that morning so they’re taking a sick day, would you accept that excuse as given or would you probe for a more detailed answer? There are some reasons to...

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Some tips for using SQL Server 2019 cursors

Some tips for using SQL Server 2019 cursors Try to avoid using SQL Server cursors, whenever possible. SQL Server cursors can results in some performance degradation in comparison with select statements. Try to use correlated subquery or derived tables, if you need to perform row-by-row operations. Use READ ONLY cursors, whenever possible, instead of updatable cursors. Because using cursors can...

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Prior to DBMS, Database Approach, Data Model — Part 2

Necessary Concepts of Database What is a Database? A database is a set of related data used to support the events of a given company. A database can be considered as a data warehouse once defined as well as accessible by several users. Database Properties The database has the subsequent features: It is an illustration of few aspect of the...

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