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...

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...

Can/Can't Do/Don't

Are you more positive or negative when you approach a problem?