The AI Budget Assistant

Most of us don't work on budgets, but we are affected by them. Is it a good idea for IT management to use AI to help plan their budgets? Steve has a few thoughts today.

The Data API Builder Start and Add Extensions in VS Code

One of the things that I like about the Data API Builder (DAB) is that there is a lot of CLI work that can be done. However, lots of...

Data API Builder Operations

Influencing a Local AI

I set up a local AI LLM to run and then conducted some experiments. This post shows a bit about the experiments and a little code. The setup is on my blog using Docker to containerize an Ollama LLM, which you can read about. The Basic Setup If you read my blog, I downloaded an […]

Advice I Like: Apologies

How to apologize: quickly, specifically, sincerely. Don’t ruin an apology with an excuse – from Excellent Advice for Living This is great advice. I remember myself often saying “I’m...

Escaping Like I

Friday Flyway Tips: Chaining Commands for State-based Deployments

One of the cool things I’ve seen with the new Flyway CLI is that I can combine multiple actions together in one call, which can make the process of...

The Types of Changes

Today Steve asks about the type of changes that you make in your databases.

Sparse Column Storage

The Managed Cloud Database Options

You have a number of options for moving your database to the cloud, but Steve has a few things you might want to consider before you do so.