Running SQL Server on Mac using Docker

It is time to practice T-SQL but how can I do that with my Macbook Pro? Thanks to Docker, it is never mission impossible. References Running SQL Server 2019 CTP in a Docker container – DBA From The Cold Running SQL Server with Docker on the Mac – SQL passion Steps Follow the post to install docker and create a container with SQL Server 2019 CTP.

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Connect SQL Server Database to R

When I am working on my personal projects, all the data I have can be easily saved as .csv or .txt files. Things are not complicated. However, when things are in scale, it is hard to not to talk about database. In my company, all the data are stored in SQL Server database. So, it is important for me to know how to connect R with SQL Server. And, also good to know how to interact with database in R by passing variables in R environment to database and then return the desired dataset.

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Learning Microsoft SQL Server

This page is about the SQL Server commands. All of the contents are based on the code in w3schools - SQL with the sample database, Northwind. To make myself easier to look up the commands I want in the future, I picked out the ones I have been used a lot in my work and add some notes on it. I also borrowed some materials from the course LinkdedIn Learning - Microsoft SQL Server 2016: Query Data.

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