Archive: March 2022

  • AutoML; How to use it and why

    Introduction Some of you may have noticed that the Purple Frog team were at the largest community-led SQL Server and Microsoft Data Platform conference in Europe last week; SQL Bits. With all of us learning a lot, I thought I would share some of the knowledge I picked up in the Machine Learning space with you this week. I went to a session by Gavita Regunath of Advancing Analytics on the topic of AutoML, and why not just beginners in…

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  • Combining Queries from Multiple Sources in Power BI using Merge and Append

    It is always good practice to do as much data preparation as close to the sources as you can before importing or connecting them to your Power BI reports, but what if there are circumstances where this isn’t possible? I had an issue recently where a third-party application had been updated and both the new and legacy versions were being used side-by-side. Logging data from both versions was being written to two separate Azure SQL databases.…

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