I currently use PluralSight for online video training on .net related technologies. Their videos on .net technology are awesome but I am not satisfied with SQL Server related videos.
Could some one please recommend some paid or free training online video site for SQL Server.
If this is not the right forum to ask this question then where should I ask this question?
I am looking for development training.
I used webucator.com for an introduction to C#. It was a great class and taught me quite a bit in 5 days. They have both instructor led and go at your own pace training available. They have a T-SQL class I've had my eye on for a while and plan on taking the next chance I get.
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I have downloaded some data from a website which was only available with a paid subscription(not free nor public data). However, in my research project I am working on annotating/labelling some documents of it to test a new supervised learning approach. I would like now to publish the created dataset in a conference paper (only for research usage), but I am not sure if that is legal or would I have some copyrights issue. I would be thankful if anyone has a similar experience.
Can any one tell me or guide me in programming an ai Assistant something like Jarvis or Google Assistant etc which has both online and offline voice recognition capability.
I am new to Ai so I tried many tuorials and all still not able to understand or build one. Also don't know where to start and how to start please any help I really need help.
To be frank, natural language processing is one of the most complex and technically difficult fields in computer science. so if you want to make your own version of google assistant, it would help to have an advanced degree in AI, a million dollars in research funding and your own team of engineers.
That being said, a chatbot makes for a really fun hobby project. For now, try not to worry about online and offline voice recognition capability. Make a text-based chatbot that handles basic conversation. You can always add more capability later, and you'll probably have your bearings by then and know what to do.
A good place may be microsoft's new bot framework. I've never used it, myself, but its goal is to take some of the technologies behind the likes of Google Assistant and Jarvis, and to make them available for the everyday developer. It seems to fit your use-case, and as a microsoft product, it'll (probably) have some documentation or tutorials for you to get started.
There are a couple of options to get started.
First off, try to build a
bot using C# for native windows
applications. Microsoft has great documentation for the same, and there are a couple of great tutorials on YouTube for the same.
You can also try
api.ai
to build a bot. It's a bit less hands on, but a good way to get started.
To really try doing everything yourself, try learning a bot of machine learning first. Google has great YouTube tutorials for the same.
Try:
C# bot on windows
Google machine learning
The best choice to start is api.ai. It is simple to learn and integrate, and have a good response time. I tried most of the chatbot engines, apply to the natural language by phone to build voice assistants (Voximal). An important factor in this case is the response time. If you plan to integrate a lot of complex datas the reponse time will increase, and remember that you need to add the time duration of the SpeechToText and TextToSpeech too...
Use my project as an inspiration, is a personal A.I. assistant that is running on Windows 10/11(maybe even 8, not tested). It uses Tokenization and content analysis and association with set parameters for natural language processing and offline and online speech recognition for speech recognition. It can search content on Amazon, Google, Google Images, Google News, Netflix, Wikipedia and eBay. It can open and close multiple applications and it can also navigate in the settings menu on windows on any page or sub-section.
The project is here: https://github.com/CSharpTeoMan911/Eva
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I've been lurking around for several weeks and have been totally blown away by the amount of information and how the community quickly responds. I have noticed that questions like this typically receive sarcastic remarks and sometimes get down voted. Please bear with me as I attempt my first post :)
I little background..
I work at a tiny software company as the "QA department". Our application has a MS SQL back to store customer data and short term loan information for financial service companies. I started working here 6 years ago as a gernal technician to provide support for their call center, so I've been overly exposed to SQL and have become fairly familiar with working with it. You probably wouldn't pay me to develop a enterprise level database, but at this point I've become familiar enough to do most things in SQL.
Why I'm asking my question..
I want to develop an application to store and track our software issues and new dev. I've done research on this website along with asking around and I still feel sort of lost as to which direction I should take. I want the core of the application to be pretty basic at first, to provide various screens between my entities/modules and to create reports to show their various relationships. In the future I want it to be more complex, to provide a web portal of some sort and to start getting into various complex QA software concepts. I've read around and it sounds like I might want some variation of C/VB for the windows portion, but all of the topics have sort of overwhelmed me. Do I want to start with a more basic one that was created 20 or 30 years ago? (I think that's C and C++, right?) or a more recent one like C#? Will I be able to develop a web portal with both of these? (by web portal I'm thinking it would provide access to our database of defects and have username/password sign-in). I've seen that the various .NET languages lean more towards web development, should I start with one of these?
I am at the very beginning of this and I fully understand that I'm jumping into some deep waters here. I want to make sure I don't end up spinning my wheels and that I focus my energy on something that won't end up being a bad idea in 1 or 2 years after I start. So far I've found this website very helpful, if I can pick a direction I know I won't have any problems finding what the next step is. It might help to know that I have no formal or informal programming background (if it wasn't obvious). I'm a 27yo techie who is starting his first venture into programming, go easy on me! Thanks for taking the time to read this :)
I won't recommend that you go to C, C++, or VB. C and C++ are used mainly for developement of system software, compilers, etc. VB is deprecated by now; there is a .net version VB.NET, but my preference is C#.
Looks like you are a Microsoft shop. Steer youself towards using C#. Visual Studio provides great support for development of Web Applications with support for holding state in entities backed by MS SQL.
I would start with a simple example as given in MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd410597.aspx.
This example uses an Model View Controller based framework that is fairly easy to configure and use. They have great examples.
There is a free framework that also supports MS SQL Entity store http://www.coderun.com/ide/
Enjoy
Don't write a line of code. There are literally hundreds of open source and commercial software packages that already do what you want to do. You'd be better of spending time researching them and finding the package that most closely meets your requirements. A good solution will also be extensible enough that you'll be able to modify it to meet all of your requirements.
Since you work for a small company I can guarantee you that using your limited development hours "writing your own" will be counterproductive. You'd be better off adopting something off the shelf and becoming proficient at it. You'll learn more about developing systems like this once you've become intimately familiar with one of them.
Check out JIRA or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_issue_tracking_systems for some other ideas.
For the benefit of your company I would recommend to use an existing
solution. But if you want to learn and build something of your own, I
would suggest that you check out some popular web application
frameworks, like:
Django
Ruby On Rails
Zend
Good Luck with your project!
Given that your intent is to learn and create something yourself I think you should consider a LAMP stack and PHP with one of the PHP frameworks on top (Cake PHP, code-igniter or the like).
The C++ route is a long hard way (C++ is my language of choice) to learn; as a learning experience I think you will get quicker and more satisfying results with PHP.
I also think that this is a realistic project for someone of your skills over a period of a 6 to 12 months - start with a simple requirement and then build it up to have all the features you need.
If you just want a bug tracking system obviously there are many options that won't demand any development.
How much experience do you have with things like installing Linux, Apache, Mysql, etc? If you are completely new to this, then this will be a much tougher task, because there are many layers you'll have to learn before you can even get to the point of writing an end-to-end application.
I would avoid C/C++/C# because there are a lot of things you would need to learn about basic programming before you even got to the stage where you could make database calls.
On the assumption that you don't have experience with LAMP (Linux/Apache/Mysql/(Perl/Python/PHP)), my suggestion would be to start simply, by using a scripting language like Python or Perl. You can very easily get a database connection, and start writing queries, and extracting data from there. If you are used to Windows, I would install ActivePerl or ActivePython, and start from there. You can start building a command line program that does what you want, and then from there, you can move on to creating a web application that can do something similar.
Building a web application would likely be much easier than writing a Windows application, so after you have gotten comfortable with the scripting language, that's the direction I would go afterwards.
Good luck!
I have a pending project that may or may not be a good candidate for leveraging SQL Server Analysis Services. The project is based around business metric calculations.
Does anyone have some good recommended reading for a crash course in SQL Server Analysis Services that'll let me catch up to speed on what the capabilities and uses are to help me decide if it is worth digging in to further?
Thanks
I've been reading Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 by Brian Larson and think this is the best book for a beginner on the subject. He is a good writer and has an easy style. His focus is on the overview and allowing you to understand SSAS basics. I'm not sure a seasoned pro would get much out of it, but for me it was perfect. I've also got the Wrox Professional book, which has far more detail but is a less enjoyable read.
here is the answer for a similar question on stackoverflow, and has some useful links for a SSAS beginner. However some links for msdev.com are not working as given in th eanser but rest are good.
Can anyone recommend a good resource -- book, website, article, etc -- to help me learn SQL Server Analysis services.
I have no knowledge of this technology right now but I do constantly work with SQL server in the traditional sense.
I want to learn about Cubes and Using Reporting Services with it. I want to start from the bottom but after I finish with the material, ideally, I'd be able to stumble through a real development project...
I'm hoping to get started with a free resource but if anyone knows of a really good book, I'd take that too.
Or, if you don't know of a resource how did you get started with the technology?
Thank you,
Frank
Take a look Here for a list of AS resources I compiled in answer to a similar question.
Pretty outstanding book:
Professional SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 with MDX
Gives you a good overview of the architecture of SSAS, as well as the query language MDX, and administrative/maintenance overview. A good primer for a developer OR a system administrator.
My personal favorite book on the topic is Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services
Mosha Pasumansky's blog is a great resource once you start learning more about the technology and MDX
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/mosha/default.aspx
Here's a link to Analysis Services Books online. It's a decent resource, and completely free.