Kevin Abstract first teased ‘Blush’ back in May, when he described the project as a new group with “no finalised members”: “Blush is not a fixed group. There are no permanent members.

SQL development is evolving fast, and Microsoft.Build.Sql is leading the charge. This next-generation SDK brings flexible project structures, better source control integration, automated build-time ...

What to learn in 2025 Start with Python for building models, learn SQL to work with data, and pick up R if the focus is on statistics or research. The best data science pros today are fluent in more ...

Python, SQL, and AI skills extend beyond tech specialists in today's job market. Python is known for being an easy introductory programming language for all those wishing to set a foundation in data ...

Microsoft has announced AI features in SQL Server 2025 and SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) (more on that later). Microsoft has added support for both cloud-based and locally hosted AI models.

While Python types typically support conversion to string via builtin str() function (and custom __str__ methods), there is no symetric operation that converts string created by str() back to typed ...

This Python script demonstrates a data pipeline that downloads a dataset from Kaggle, performs data cleaning, and loads the prepared data into a SQL database for further analysis. Below are the ...

This paper addresses this gap by proposing a prototype for integrating Python’s capabilities into Excel through on-premises desktop to build custom spreadsheet functions with Python. This approach ...