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,...

15 Characters or Less: The Challenge of SQL Server Listeners Name

15 Characters or Less: The Challenge of SQL Server Listeners Name

There is a hard limit on how long your AlwaysOn listener name can be. That...

Removing the REST Endpoint in the Data API Builder

The more I work with the Data API Builder (DAB), the more I lean towards GraphQL instead of REST. Rest isn’t bad, but it’s tough. This is part of...

The Local OLLAMA Gui

I ran a small ollama model in a container and have been doing some experiments. One of the things I wanted to do was get a GUI so I...

A New Word: Amoransia

amoransia – n. the melodramatic thrill of unrequited love; the longing to pine for someone you can never have, wallowing in devotion to some impossible person who could give...

Data Masking with Azure Databricks

“Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”— Lewis...

Challenges Enterprises Face When Adopting AI

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PASS Summit 2024 – A new experience

I attended the PASS Data Community Summit held in Seattle in person this year after a long gap of 4 years and after RedGate software took over running the...

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...

Implement a RAG Solution Using Azure SQL Database

AI and ChatGPT are all the rage these days.  Seems like around every corner is another break-through in how we interact with data, regardless of if that data is...