I set up a local AI LLM to run and then conducted some experiments. This post shows a bit about the experiments and a little code. The setup is on my blog using Docker to containerize an Ollama LLM, which you can read about. The Basic Setup If you read my blog, I downloaded an […]
This editorial was originally published on May 18, 2019. It is being re-run as Steve is on holiday. Back in my days as a SQL server DBA, I didn't have many third-party tools at my disposal. I remember having a monitoring tool with licenses for only three or four SQL server instances. Whenever there was […]
This article covers examples of how some larger companies have successfully implemented CI/CD practices to transform their development processes.
Searching for relevant information in vast repositories of unstructured text can be a challenge. This article explains a Python-based approach to implementing an efficient document search system using FAISS (Facebook AI Similarity Search) for Vector DB and sentence embeddings, which can be useful in applications like chatbots, document retrieval, and natural language understanding. In this […]
Everybody’s coasting and looking back. Let’s kick our heels up, get comfortable, and talk big picture industry stuff.
This is a list of the builds for SQL Server 2022. There are other build lists available here. A list of all the builds that I can find and install on my Build VM. If you find a build not listed here, please let the webmaster know (webmaster at sqlservercentral.com). All builds are listed in reverse […]
In this next level of the Stairway to Snowflake, learn about creating and dropping databases, with some options for cloning from different sources.
You have a number of options for moving your database to the cloud, but Steve has a few things you might want to consider before you do so.
I’ve had lots of wish lists over the years, from Ladybug to Connect to UserVoice, and very few of my dreams ever come true. Still, it’s fun every once in a while, to be whimsical about the way I wished SQL Server worked. Especially in January because, you know, new beginnings.
By Steve Jones
I wanted to experiment a bit with an LLM and training it, so I...
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