Were very excited to announce that were offering a new Immersion Event on Practical Data Science using Azure Machine Learning, SQL Data Mining, and R, presented by our great friend Rafal Lukawiecki. Weve known Rafal well since 2003, and apart from being an expert in BI and data mining, hes a superb, highly-engaging speaker, whos [&]

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Heres an interesting question that came up in our IEPTO1 class in Chicago this week (paraphrasing): I was doing a demo recently where I was demonstrating physical I/Os occurring. I used DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS, then enabled SET STATISTICS IO ON and performed a SELECT operation. I was expecting to see physical reads occurring but I only saw logical [&]

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