AI Helping with an API

Can an AI help me with some database API work? Let’s see. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. The Scenario One of the things...

Continuous Learning

The idea of continuous learning is great for individuals and organizations.

The Hash Join III

T-SQL Tuesday #181: A Technology Present

It’s the last T-SQL Tuesday of the year, and it’s amazing to think we’ve gotten to #181. That’s over 15 years of monthly blog parties. This month we have...

Adding Test data to msdb.sysjobhistory

One of our internal people was looking to test some process in (I assume) Redgate Monitor and needed more job history than they had in msdb.sysjobhistory. They wanted to...

Getting ANY of the data

Why Would You Do That?

We look at problems in different ways and Steve notes this can help or hinder us in software development.

The Pervasive Nature of Open Source

This week there was a headline that said "Open Source Software Powers 96% of Modern Applications, New Study Finds" and if you stopped reading there, you might think, hey, it's not in the apps I work on. Or you might think that because you use OSS software, most of the world also does. Microsoft, Oracle, […]

A New Word: Fardle-dun

fardle-din – n. a long-overdue argument that shakes up a relationship, burning wildly through your issues like a forest fire, which clears out your dry and hollow grievances and...

Big Queries, Big Money

I had been meaning to post this, so as I finished a piece that referenced this, I decided to post the picture. This was from Small Data SF, where...