Becoming a Presenter: My Journey and Tips
I still remember my very first presentation many years ago. Someone in my team asked me to demo a project I’d been working on, and I was absolutely terrified....
2025-06-17
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Blog Posts
Getting Started with Vector Search in SQL Server 2025 Using Ollama
Ollama SQL FastStart streamlines the deployment of SQL Server 2025 with integrated AI capabilities through a comprehensive Docker-based solution. This project delivers a production-ready environment combining SQL Server 2025,...
2025-06-16 (first published: 2025-05-19)
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Invoking Another Pipeline in Microsoft Fabric
At the moment there are two activities in Fabric pipelines that allow you to execute a “child” pipeline. They are both named “Invoke Pipeline” but are differentiated by the...
2025-06-16 (first published: 2025-06-04)
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Beginner’s Guide: Create a File Organizer CLI Tool in Rust
Image from Afdhaluddin on ShutterstockCLI which is generally referred to as Command Line Interface is a terminal or console interface which allows the user to interact with a software...
2025-06-14
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How AI Could Have Prevented the Bengaluru Stampede
Bengaluru Stampede Tragedy: When Celebration Turned to Chaos On June 4, 2025, what began as a joyous celebration of Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s (RCB) historic IPL win ended in a devastating tragedy. Thousands...
2025-06-13
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Is Air Travel Still Safe? | Ahmedabad Plane Crash 2025 Explained | Aviation Safety & AI Solutions
Is Air Travel Safe? Yes, air travel remains statistically the safest mode of transportation. In 2024, the global accident rate was 0.80 per million flights, with fatal accidents being extremely rare....
2025-06-13
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The Book of Redgate: Ingeniously Simple
Redgate has been known for many useful tools that are easy to use. We’ve tried to do that in all our point tools. We talk about simplicity all the...
2025-06-13 (first published: 2025-06-06)
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The Third Sabbatical
I can’t believe I’ve been at Redgate long enough to get a third sabbatical. I’ve very lucky to have this job, still enjoy it, and get the benefit. I’ve...
2025-06-13
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Vertically scaling SQL Server online in Kubernetes
One of the new features in Kubernetes v1.33 is the ability to resize CPU and memory resources for containers online, aka without having to recreate the pod the container...
2025-06-13 (first published: 2025-05-22)
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Cloud Provider Outage!
Your Cloud Provider is experiencing an outage! Your websites and databases are all down! When local data centers were the primary source...
2025-06-12
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Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
GenAI vs Dashboards: Not the Same (And Never Will Be)
By James Serra
There’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more lately, especially as Copilot, Fabric,...
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