For those entering the AI space whether professionally or personally I wanted to give a quick overview on the different models on offer within the Claude family – when...
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I speak to many people who use cloud technologies, especially database tech and how little consideration they give to their MISSION CRITICAL Databases that run in the cloud and...
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Blockchain technology is still at the hype stage for an emerging technology cycle, it gets a bad image from all the dodgy web3 “crypto” fake projects out there (based...
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I’m at the UK Redgate office today, meeting with senior leaders in all areas...
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In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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