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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Blog Posts
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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Introducing the SQL Server on Kubernetes Operator
Are you considering replatforming your SQL Server workload due to recent vendor changes, but still need high availability and disaster recovery? You’re not alone. One of the challenges with...
2026-04-22 (first published: 2026-04-12)
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SQL skills just got MORE important
There seems to be a school of thought in the tech community that a robust knowledge SQL is now optional. After all, with modern AI tools able to generate...
2026-04-22
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The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”
After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the various industries, I am placing a bet: agents will become the default interface for most...
2026-04-22
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Changing the Cardinality of a FK in Redgate Data Modeler
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how to adjust a FK constraint between two tables. The tool seemed to makes this easy,...
2026-04-20 (first published: 2026-04-13)
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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
SSRS Reminded Me of the Time Microsoft Retired TMG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SSRS Reminded Me of the...
Getting results from a Procedure to join to a query
I have a need to execute a stored procedure and return the results to...
Upgrade 2016 Standard to 2022 Express
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers