A Small LLM Fail

Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This one surprised me. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. Looking...

Architecting Power BI Solutions in Microsoft Fabric

Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Power BI are used by a wide range of professionals, creating diverse and complex scenarios, and finding the right solution can be daunting, especially when multiple approaches exist for a single use case. The author distills his 17 years of experience on various data platform technologies in this book to walk you through various Power BI usage scenarios.

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Reducing Cloud Cost

Cloud costs are high and growing. Some orgs think they're out of control and are trying to limit spend. Some orgs are looking to leave the cloud. A lot of IT spend over the years has been seen as a cost center, with many executives trying to limit the growth or spend, even while they […]

Slip Streaming Installs

T-SQL Tuesday #191 Round Up

I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a few entries. Here’s a look at the blogs people published. First as always, Rob Farley...

DevOps is DevOps

DevOps includes a lot of practices, but no matter which technology that you use, the ideas are the same.

SQL Clone at Scale with Striped Backups

I had a customer recently reach out to ask if SQL Clone would work with 20 backup files. I decided to test this. This is part of a series...

Striped Backup File Limits

Adding a Local Model to Ollama through the GUI

I saw some good reviews of the small gemma3 model in a few places and wanted to try it locally. This If you want to get started, read my...

Advice I Like: Training Employees

Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well enough that they never want to. – from Excellent Advice for Living This one is...