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Number crunching through clustering

Number crunching through clustering

Separating your data into buckets is useful in a lot of problems especially fraud detection. How do you mathematically ‘cluster’ your data? One statistical way is the K-means clustering. Without delving into too much statistics, here is a spreadsheet you can use to do this for your own data. This sheet accepts pairs of two [...]

Performance tuning SQL queries in Oracle

Performance tuning SQL queries in Oracle

Video tutorial showing how to optimise your SQL queries for maximum performance. Talks about indexes, statistics, hints and optimiser plans.