The AI Budget Assistant
Most of us don't work on budgets, but we are affected by them. Is it a good idea for IT management to use AI to help plan their budgets? Steve has a few thoughts today.
Why Standards are Important
There is something in the tech mindset that simultaneously loves and loathes a standard. Having standards is important, what those standards are is less so.
How to Install SSIS in Visual Studio 2019
This tool has always been an integral part of the Visual Studio. However, the name of this tool as well as the method of its installation varies from version to version of Visual Studio (VS). In this article, we are going to illustrate how to install SSIS in Visual Studio 2019.
Navigating the Database Landscape in 2025 Livestream on Feb 12
Join us on February 12th for the livestream: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2025: Simplifying Complexity. Discover the latest trends and insights from our 2025 report, learn new approaches for professional development, and gain valuable knowledge to stay ahead in your career.
Influencing a Local AI
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 […]
Why Tools Can Help You Do Your Job
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 […]
Demystifying Continuous Integration vs. Continuous Delivery Part 3 – Real World Examples of CI CD
This article covers examples of how some larger companies have successfully implemented CI/CD practices to transform their development processes.
Vector DB implementation using FAISS
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 […]
The Ebb and Flow of AI
Everybody’s coasting and looking back. Let’s kick our heels up, get comfortable, and talk big picture industry stuff.
Blogs
The Data API Builder Start and Add Extensions in VS Code
By Steve Jones
One of the things that I like about the Data API Builder (DAB) is...
Using OneLake for Excel Files in Microsoft Fabric
By DataOnWheels
Hey data friends! This blog is to discuss an edge case I’ve run into...
Another AI Faux Pax
By Steve Jones
I was experimenting with a local model (article) and as a part of this,...
Forums
AD, powershell and ssis
Hi, i have a requirement that involves visiting multiple folders in AD for active,...
File date from Extended Event .xel files
I know this, but I do not remember it. I have scoured by saved...
SSMS gets very messy
At work we have quite a few databases that I'm frequently browsing. This is...
Question of the Day
Sparse Column Defaults
What are the restrictions for defaults on columns declared as sparse?
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