2017

Skip header and footer rows in Hive

In this post “Skip header and footer rows in Hive“, we are going to learn that how we can ignore few header and footer records in Hive without loading or reading these records in another table or in a view temporarily. If you want to read more about Hive, visit my post “Preserve Hive metastore in […]

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Preserve Hive metastore in Azure HDInsight

In this blog “Preserve Hive metastore in Azure HDInsight“, we are going to learn how we can preserve the hive metadata while working with the Azure HDInsight services. Microsoft Azure HDInsight is an on-demand managed Open source Big Data analytics service for the enterprises. We can provision clusters as per the demand in few minutes,

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Connecting Python 3 to SQL Server 2017 using pyodbc

In this post “Connecting Python 3 to SQL Server 2017 using pyodbc”, we are going to learn that how we can connect Python 3 to SQL Server 2017 to execute SQL queries. We can change the settings accordingly to connect to other versions of SQL Server also. If you are interested to know more about

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Free C# Entity Generator or C# Class Generator

C# Entity Generator or Class Generator Tool A few years back, I created a tool “C# Entity Generator”. Though it was created for an older version of visual studio, still it can be useful. I am sharing this tool here so that anyone can download and use it for free. This tool does not require

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Python use case – Get employees for given skill set – SQL Server 2017

In the previous blog post “Python use case – Map unequal comma separated values from two columns – SQL Server 2017“, we demonstrated a use case example of Python in SQL Server 2017. Now, in this post, “Python use case – Get employees for given skill set – SQL Server 2017”, we are going to

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Python use case – Map unequal comma separated values from two columns – SQL Server 2017

We know that Microsoft has integrated Python in SQL Server 2017 to enable rich data analytics capabilities within the database itself. Python is one of the most powerful languages which provides lots of built-in libraries for advanced data analytics and transformations. We can use Python for almost everything from website development to robotics and Data

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Why Python and how to use it in SQL Server 2017

Microsoft has integrated Python in SQL Server 2017 which can be used for in-database analysis purpose. In this post, we are going to explore “Why Python and how to use it in SQL Server 2017”, and then we will explore that how we can use it in SQL Server 2017. Why Python Python is a

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Specific row at the top then sort the rest result set in SQL Server

In this post, “Specific row at the top then sort the rest result set in SQL Server“, we are going to learn that how we can order a result set in a customized way which cannot be achieved using ORDER by Clause in a simple way. To demonstrate this, let’s create a sample table named as “tbl_Department” and insert

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