Interesting Stuff - Week 15

Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, and so forth, that has to do with things that interest me:

• data science
• data in general
• distributed computing
• SQL Server
• transactions (both db as well as non db)
• and other "stuff"

This blog-post is the "roundup" of the things that have been most interesting to me, for the week just ending.

Interesting Stuff - Week 14

Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, and so forth, that has to do with things that interest me:

• data science
• data in general
• distributed computing
• SQL Server
• transactions (both db as well as non db)
• and other "stuff"

This blog-post is the "roundup" of the things that have been most interesting to me, for the week just ending.

SQL Server Machine Learning Services and Extended Events

Back in the day when I started with the SQL Server R Services - Internals posts, I thought I would use SQL Server Extended Events (XEvents) to figure things out. I knew SQL Server and the extensibility architecture supported XEvents because I had come across this documentation, where it (amongst other things) said:

"SQL Server provides a set of extended events to use in troubleshooting operations related to the SQL Server Trusted Launchpad, as well as Python or R jobs sent to SQL Server."

From the above, it is pretty clear that XEvents is the way to go when drilling down into how things "hang together". However, how hard I tried, I could not make "head or tails" of how to get things to work (I should probably have tried harder), so in the end, I went the WinDbg and WireShark route.

Fast forward a year (and a bit) and someone asked a question on an internal forum about XEvents and SQL Server Machine Learning Services, and I decided to look into it and to try to understand it a bit better. So this post is the result of me playing around with researching XEvents and SQL Server Machine Learning Services.

Interesting Stuff - Week 13

Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, and so forth, that has to do with things that interest me:

• data science
• data in general
• distributed computing
• SQL Server
• transactions (both db as well as non db)
• and other "stuff"

This blog-post is the "roundup" of the things that have been most interesting to me, for the week just ending.

Interesting Stuff - Week 12

Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, and so forth, that has to do with things that interest me:

• data science
• data in general
• distributed computing
• SQL Server
• transactions (both db as well as non db)
• and other "stuff"

This blog-post is the "roundup" of the things that have been most interesting to me, for the week just ending.