SQL Server and SDS


Building Planet-Scale .NET Apps with Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed distributed database that can be transparently replicated across regions while remaining highly performant and seamlessly scaling according to needs, making it great for applications of any scale.

What's New for Web, Data, Desktop and Mobile in .NET 9 Preview 4

Enhancements listed for libraries/runtime and individual components/workloads for .NET 9, coming in November.

Clustering Mixed Categorical and Numeric Data Using k-Means with C#

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on a "very tricky" machine learning technique.

Microsoft Ships Data API Builder for Azure SQL Databases

Microsoft today announced the general availability of the open source Data API builder (DAB), which provides REST and GraphQL endpoints for Azure databases, some three years in the making.

Data Virtualization in SQL Server 2022

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client connection software.

Multi-Class Classification Using LightGBM

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research provides a full-code, step-by-step machine learning tutorial on how to use the LightGBM system to perform multi-class classification using Python and the scikit-learn library.

Oh Data! Microsoft Ships First Major OData Update in Nearly 8 Years

Microsoft today shipped a preview of OData .NET 8. OData v7.0 was released in August of 2016.

The t-SNE Data Visualization Technique from Scratch Using C#

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step example of machine learning technique to visualize high-dimensional data.

Data Clustering Using a Self-Organizing Map (SOM) with C#

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on technique for visualizing and clustering data.

Principal Component Analysis from Scratch Using Singular Value Decomposition with C#

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on a classical ML technique that transforms a dataset into one with fewer columns, useful for creating a graph of data that has more than two columns, for example.

Matrix Inverse from Scratch Using SVD Decomposition with C#

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on an implementation of the technique that emphasizes simplicity and ease-of-modification over robustness and performance.

Machine Learning

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) from Scratch Using the Classical Technique with C#

Transforming a dataset into one with fewer columns is more complicated than it might seem, explains Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research in this full-code, step-by-step machine learning tutorial.

My App Is Fully Concurrent and Async, but What About the Database?

You've carefully crafted a concurrent application taking advantage of all the latest and greatest language features. It scales magnificently and it's the jewel of the cloud. But what about the database? What happens when simultaneous queries are executed against the same data?

Matrix Inverse from Scratch Using QR Decomposition with C#

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research guides you through a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on "one of the most important operations in machine learning."

Spectral Data Clustering from Scratch Using C#

Spectral clustering is quite complex, but it can reveal patterns in data that aren't revealed by other clustering techniques.

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