Jamie's Junk

If you've ever wanted to learn what Data Mining is all about - what it is and what you can do with it, be sure to catch my webcast tomorrow. You can register for it here . I'll be giving a complete introduction to the topic, so no previous knowledge is...

I recently posted a earnest plea for beta users to report and file bugs they found - well we got a good one. A customer reported that when they created a cluster model they got nice clusters and drillthrough returned about 150 cases in each. However when...

Last week Jason Carlson from Reporting Services asked me to help him build a model he was creating to analyze some survey results. He was trying to see how company related questions such as number of PC's etc relate to product related questions, such...

After dropping the link to Apollo in my last post I found they have this cool webcast which describes the why, how, and root concepts of text mining presented by co-founders Jeff Kaplan and Paul Bradley

The current issue of MSDN has two data mining articles The first Say What? Make Sense of Your Web Feedback using SQL Server 2005 by Peter Kim takes you through the steps of using SQL Server 2k5 Text Mining and Data Mining to extract information from...

You know, we have betas for a reason - to get your feedback and to help us find bugs we've missed that show up in production, or using customer's data, or using the product in ways we didn't envision here at Microsoft. Oft times, I've run into the situation...

Here's a nice article from Jim Gray that (intentionally or not) puts many of the features of SQL 2005 in a larger perspective and discusses general database trends going forward