Next week on Wednesday 28 July 2021, I will be presenting a brand-new session titled “How SQL Server stores that data type” for the free EightKB virtual conference. I’ve...
2021-07-21
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My user group, the Calgary Data User Group, has been recording videos since April of this year, so at the time of this writing we have just two videos...
2021-07-14
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Today I want to write about the community that brought us all together. The community that got this very website on your radar. The community that got many of...
2021-07-07
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In early 2011 Jes Borland invited us to write about aggregations: I want to hear how you solved business problems with aggregate functions. I want to see your cool...
2021-06-30
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It has been some time since I last wrote about Azure SQL Database. Although it has been more than three years since SQL Server 2017 was released, Microsoft have...
2021-06-23
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If you’d like to check out the previous instalment in this series on storing dates and times, click here. I avoided mentioning this data type because I didn’t think...
2021-06-16
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Whenever I restore a database — especially one I obtained outside of my regular environment (for example a customer database, a development database, or even a sample database like...
2021-06-09
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Last week I wrote about recovering data after an unplanned outage, and this week I’m contemplating a thing that would be considered bad in those circumstances as well as...
2021-06-02
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A few years ago, I wrote that a CPU is “a hot mess of on-off switches.” There’s more to it than that when you get into the weeds of...
2021-05-31 (first published: 2021-05-19)
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One of my special interests as an autistic person is understanding mechanical components of a computer, both analog and digital. In the olden days, we had devices known as...
2021-05-26
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By Chris Yates
There was a time when the Chief Data Officer lived in the shadows of...
By Rayis Imayev
"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help...
By Steve Jones
I saw some good reviews of the small gemma3 model in a few places...
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