Interesting Stuff - Week 26

Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, etc., that has to do with things that interest me

This is the “roundup” of the posts that has been most interesting to me, for the week just gone by.

SQL Server

Graph Database with T-SQL. Tomaz takes us through the new graph database functionality in SQL Server 2017. I so wanted to look into the graph capabilities of SQL Server 2017, but haven’t had time, sigh!
Faster temp table and table variable by using memory optimization. Oh, this is cool! The post talks about increasing performance for temp tables and table variables by using in-memory optimizations.
SQLCLR and Certificates. A post by myself, discussing how to authorize SQLCLR assemblies for permissions other than SAFE. In this post I probably also offend some people by saying I don’t think that TRUSTWORTHY is that bad.
SQL Server 2017, SQLCLR and Permissions. Geez, I have been productive this week - a second post by me. While investigating the post above, I came across some changes in SQL Server 2017, regarding SQLCLR and permissions. This post is the result.

Using Azure Data Lake and R for Fraud Detection. A post about peta-scale fraud detection using R and Azure Data Lake.
Saving Snow Leopards with Deep Learning and Computer Vision on Spark. This is soooo cute! Using image analysis and Apache Spark to save Snow Leopards!!!
End to End Loan ChargeOff Prediction Built Using Azure HDInsight Spark Clusters and SQL Server 2016 R Service. Monitoring loan charge-off using either R and Apache Spark, or SQL Server 2016 R Services.

#NoTDD. A very thought provoking post regarding the advantages/disadvantages of TDD.

That’s all for this week. I hope you enjoy what I did put together. If you have ideas for what to cover, please comment on this post or ping me.