A New Word: Looseleft

looseleft – the feeling of loss upon finishing a good book, sensing the weight of the back cover locking away the lives of characters you’ve gotten to know so...

AI Thoughts on the Build Keynote

Today Steve has a few thoughts, and links, from the Build Keynote last week, which featured AI technology.

Getting the Current Context in go-sqlcmd

Microsoft Build Announcements for Data Professionals

This week was Microsoft Build. After four years, it was back in person in Seattle and available online. I didn't attend in person, but I did watch a number of sessions and also went through the Build 2023 Book of News. You can download the book if you want, as it provides a lengthy list […]

Using ChatGPT for Writing

I have been experimenting more and more with ChatGPT on a regular basis. I’m interested and curious how this will help. I had a friend at one of the...

Branding Yourself for a Dream Job – Houston SQL Server User Group

I delivered a presentation for the Houston SQL Server User Group tonight, virtually from Colorado. I’d love to go down, but couldn’t do it today. The slides for the...

Denver Dev Days

I’m going to attend the Denver Dev Days 2023 in June. I submitted a few sessions and got two picked. I’ll be doing these talks: Blogging for the Tech...

Setting up a Local http Server with Node

Setting up a local web server was something that I haven’t done in a long time and this was really easy. This post shows how to do this with...

SQL MI Stop/Start Billing

The Best Graph

Today Steve discusses visualizations and how we would think about the information a client gets from them.