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What a Data Scientist Does: The Skills That Still Matter

October 25, 2013
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Mathematical Function, Python, SQL Function

What a data scientist does is turn a vague question into an answer that people can trust and act on. This post walks through the work as a loop, and shows the summary statistics step in T-SQL on a small bike rental log.

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Fast Bulk Inserts From Python

August 3, 2007
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Batch, Python, SQL Performance, SQL Server

Bulk inserts from Python work best with parameterized executemany, measured batch sizes, a tested fast_executemany path, and clear restart rules.

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