Advice I Like: Why am I doing this?
You are never too young to wonder “Why am I still doing this?” You need to have an excellent answer – from Excellent Advice for Living I’d say that...
2025-01-31
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Blog Posts
Another AI Faux Pax
I was experimenting with a local model (article) and as a part of this, I pulled down a web interface for my model in a container. I ran it...
2025-01-31 (first published: 2025-01-20)
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Common Issues When Using Change Tracking for Data Warehouse Incremental Loads
I have a few clients that incrementally load tables from a SQL Server source into their data warehouse or lakehouse by using change tracking. Lately, they encountered some issues...
2025-01-31
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Common Issues When Using Change Tracking for Data Warehouse Incremental Loads
I have a few clients that incrementally load tables from a SQL Server source into their data warehouse or lakehouse by using change tracking. Lately, they encountered some issues...
2025-01-31
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Common Issues When Using Change Tracking for Data Warehouse Incremental Loads
I have a few clients that incrementally load tables from a SQL Server source into their data warehouse or lakehouse by using change tracking. Lately, they encountered some issues...
2025-01-31
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Data Governance: The Invisible AI Accelerator
The post Data Governance: The Invisible AI Accelerator appeared first on Joyful Craftsmen.
2025-01-31 (first published: 2025-01-20)
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Top 5 Advanced SQL Courses for 2025 (Must-Know)
Want to seriously boost your data skills? Mastering advanced SQL is the key, whether you're in data analysis, data science, or any field that uses data. Trust me, it's...
2025-01-31 (first published: 2025-01-30)
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Online Recording: Exploring PostgreSQL for SQL Server Developers and DBAs
On January 9 I have done an online presentation about Exploring PostgreSQL for the SQL Server Developers and DBAs for the Cloud Data Driven User Group. You can find the...
2025-01-29 (first published: 2025-01-20)
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Setting up a Local LLM
I wanted to experiment a bit with an LLM and training it, so I decided to try a few things. I looked at a few tutorials (see the references...
2025-01-29 (first published: 2025-01-20)
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SQL in 2025: Still the King of Data
Data's the new oil, and SQL is your refinery. It's still the go-to language for shaping, analyzing, and making sense of the data that fuels our businesses. In 2025,...
2025-01-28
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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