SQL Server Machine Learning Services – Part 4: Finding Data Anomalies with Python

Python is widely used to analyze data. One such use is to find anomalies or outliers. In this article, Robert Sheldon demonstrates how to create a support vector machine (SVM) to score test data so that outliers can be viewed on a scatter plot.

Historical Stock Prices and Volumes from Python to a CSV File

Python is a versatile language that is gaining more popularity as it is used for data analysis and data science. In this article, Rick Dobson demonstrates how to download stock market data and store it into CSV files for later import into a database system.

SQL Server Machine Learning Services – Part 3: Plotting Data with Python

One of the advantages of running Python from SQL Server is the ability to create graphics to assist in analysis of data. Robert Sheldon demonstrates matplotlib, a 2D plotting library, widely used with Python to create quality charts.

Importing Historical Stock Prices from Yahoo Finance into SQL Server

Rick Dobson demonstrate a clean end-to-end solution for importing historical stock ticker prices from Yahoo Finance into a SQL Server table using Python.

Python Dictionaries

Python Lists

The Power of Python and SQL Server 2017

Python is new to SQL Server 2017. It is intended primarily to allow the use of Python-based machine-learning within SQL Server, but it can be used for far more than this, with any Python libraries or Frameworks. To provide an example of what is possible, Hitendra shows how to use the feature securely to provide intelligent application caching, where SQL Server can automatically indicate when data changes to trigger a cache refresh.

Adding to Lists

Create a Web-Based CRUD Automation Framework with Python

Implement a CRUD automation framework that handles insert and simple queries, an easy way to talk to a database without needing to write any database-access code.