(Tapas Pal) CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a security check to distinguish between humans and computers. Computers or bots are not capable of solving a Captcha problem.
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How to build a VSTS assistant – The Life and Times of a Kanban bot – Part 3
(Julian Atanasoae) In the previous post (Part 2) we learned how to expand our bot functionality and be able to create work items using our voice.
SQL SERVER – Script – Turn off Firewall Remotely (PowerShell, NetSh, PsExec)
(Pinal Dave) I was working with a client to deploy an automated solution to install SQL Server. Since this involved scripting and running PowerShell remotely, we wanted to disable the firewall.
How to Do Neural Binary Classification Using Keras
(James McCaffrey) The goal of a binary classification problem is to make a prediction that can be one of just two possible values. For example, you might want to predict the sex (male or female) of a person based on their age, annual income and so on.
MongoDB versus MySQL Document Store command comparisons I
(Dave Stokes) Both MongoDB and the MySQL Document Store are JSON document stores. The syntax differences in the two products are very interesting. This long will be a comparison of how commands differ between these two products and may evolve into a ‘cheat sheet’ if there is demand.
Autonomous Database: Creating an Autonomous Transaction Processing Instance
(Gerald) In this post I’m going to demonstrate how quick and easy one can create an Autonomous Transaction Processing, short ATP, instance of Oracle’s Autonomous Database Cloud Services.
Playing With Service Relocation 12c
(mdinh) With 12c, use verbose to display services running.
Complicated linked servers and a bunch of head-desks: T-SQL Tuesday #104
(Kenneth Fisher) Wayne Sheffield (b/t) is our host this month for the long running blog party (104 months now and running!) started by Adam Machanic (b/t).
SQL Basics
(Craig S. Mullins) It is hard to imagine a time when SQL was unknown and not the lingua franca it is today for accessing databases. That said, there are still folks out there who don’t know what SQL is… so for them, here is an introductory place to start…
Guru: Refactoring RPG – GOTO
(Ted Holt) When I first learned COBOL, I coded loops the way all the programmers in my shop did — with GO TO. Paragraph names were labels, not routines.