This month's TriPASS meeting will feature Mark Gordon, covering database backups on Tuesday, November 17th at 6:30 PM. It's an introductory-level session, but Mark gave it at SQL Saturday Raleigh to great effect. TriPASS meetings are always free. Sign up through the Meetup page. If you're in the RTP area, come check it out.
Using RODBC To Connect R To SQL Server
So far in my series on R, I've only looked at reading data from flat files. Flat files are very useful constructs and are nice ways to get data sets to people with arbitrary end systems, but there's this awesome thing called a database which allows you to store data, and I want to get on…