Markdown Like a Champ in Visual Studio Code

Today's post will be fairly short. We are going to talk about a pair of extensions for Visual Studio Code which make it easy to build markdown files. Markdown All in One The first tool of choice is a big one, Yu Zhang's Markdown All in One. This extension provides several great features. One of…

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The Basics of MLflow

This is sort of related to a series on getting beyond the basics with Azure ML but is not officially part of that series. In this post, we are going to cover MLflow, a platform for managing the machine learning lifecycle. What is MLflow? MLflow is a set of products which allow data scientists to…

Writing Testable Code: the Functional Approach

In yesterday's post, I covered the resources I used for chapter 5 and teased an approach to writing testable code. Today, I want to give you a sneak peek at Finding Ghosts in Your Data and show you an excerpt from chapter 5 of the book. Note that this is text from the first draft,…

Interesting Resources for Chapter 5

For each chapter in Finding Ghosts in Your Data, I’ll include a few resources that I found interesting. This isn’t a bibliography, strictly speaking, as I might not use all of these in the course of writing, but they were at least worth noting. Is This Thing On? The theme for chapter 5 is testing, so…

Interesting Resources for Chapter 4

For each chapter in Finding Ghosts in Your Data, I’ll include a few resources that I found interesting. This isn’t a bibliography, strictly speaking, as I might not use all of these in the course of writing, but they were at least worth noting. Sundry Links Chapter 4 is all about building the framework for an…

From Cosmos DB to the Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool

With the announcement back at Ignite that SQL Server 2022 will have support for Synapse Link, I figured it would be a good idea to put together a quick post showing how you can use Synapse Link today, using the already-available connector for Cosmos DB as an example. I don't know if the behavior will…

Scheduling Azure ML Compute Instances

Not too long ago, I mentioned that compute instances in Azure Machine Learning are lacking one critical thing: auto-stop functionality. The single biggest problem I have with compute instances is that there is no auto-stop functionality to them. This is really frustrating because you’re paying for that virtual machine like you would any other, so…

Upping My Audio Quality Game

A few months ago, Anthony Nocentino discussed his Pluralsight setup. I decided that this was a good time to take advantage of a friend's knowledge and upgrade my system. Obligatory Warnings Before I get into the setup, I have to lay out some warnings. You get two classes of obligatory warning here: first, that I…

Low-Code Azure ML: Wrapping Up

This is part seven in a series on low-code machine learning with Azure ML. What Did We Learn? Over the course of this series, we learned how to use Azure Machine Learning to train models and score data without writing a line of code. We first learned how to create a workspace in Azure Machine…

Getting the SQL Server Product Key via Powershell

I was working on an upgrade recently, trying to move from SQL Server 2016 to SQL Server 2019. I wanted to perform an upgrade in-place on an Azure VM, but needed to get the product key. There are a few places where you can find Powershell functions to get this product key, with Ryan @…