OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and Aamir Lakhani- with great knowledge . during the session learned about OpenClaw and more. I...
2026-04-29 (first published: 2026-04-17)
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Blog Posts
Visualising Vectors in High Dimensional Space
Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to delve into visualisation of vector embeddings that were generated from the restaurant data pulled from...
2026-04-29 (first published: 2026-04-17)
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Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB as the source) that I’ve managed to run into, twice. I’ve set up mirroring by...
2026-04-27 (first published: 2026-04-15)
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JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an example of why it can behave weirdly. This post looks at something you might not...
2026-04-27 (first published: 2026-04-15)
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Questions and Answers from Running a Local LLM
I had a few random questions from my Running a Local LLM on Your Laptop session at the Houston AI-lytics 2026 event last week, so this post looks at...
2026-04-27
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Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out with them. The slides with links...
2026-04-25
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The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve worked with them in some capacity since 2002 and I’ve felt this along the way:...
2026-04-25 (first published: 2026-04-24)
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Cultural Change: Fostering a Cost-Aware Culture in Your Organisation
After working deep in cloud operations, I’ve learned that FinOps isn’t really about dashboards or optimisation scripts. Tools can highlight waste, but culture determines whether anyone acts on it....
2026-04-24 (first published: 2026-04-15)
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Impactful Sessions I’ve Seen: T-SQL Tuesday #196
This month I’m thrilled that Steve Hughes is hosting. I’ve read this Data on Wheels blog for a long time and I appreciate all that he does, especially given...
2026-04-24 (first published: 2026-04-14)
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Beyond VARBINARY: How to Store PDFs in SQL Server Using FILESTREAM and FileTable
Hello, dear blog reader. Today’s post is coming to you straight from the home office, ready to talk about a topic that comes up more than you’d think: storing...
2026-04-22 (first published: 2026-04-14)
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Blogs
KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 4
By Zikato
Someone hacked Digitown's municipality and stole classified documents. 45 million rows of router traffic,...
EightKB 2026 – Schedule and Registration
Hello Hello, We. Are. Back! The schedule for EightKB 2026 Edition has been announced!...
Killing Explicit Sort Steps in Redshift with the Right SORTKEY
You paste a slow Redshift query plan into PlanTrace and one of the tuning...
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Displaying Money
I want to get the currency sign displayed with my amount stored in a money type. Does this work?
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