📘 Understanding PESTLE PESTLE is a strategic framework used to evaluate external macro-environmental factors that influence business operations. It stands for This model is particularly useful for assessing how...
2025-06-24
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Configuration, Performance, and Unnecessary Usage TempDB is the SQL Server equivalent of a junk drawer – everyone uses it, nobody monitors it, and eventually it becomes a bottleneck you...
2025-06-23 (first published: 2025-06-04)
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I have a proper blog post coming out tomorrow for T-SQL Tuesday, but today, celebrate with me that SSMS 21 finally, at long last, fixes the irritating fact that...
2025-06-23 (first published: 2025-06-09)
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SQL Bits 2025 was amazing, as always. It’s been my favorite conference to attend, with lots of friends, a family atmosphere, and some amazing speakers from whom I learn...
2025-06-22
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lackout – n. the sudden awareness that you’re finally over someone, noticing that the same voice that once triggered a cocktail of emotions now evokes nothing at all –...
2025-06-21
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Here’s how these tools can make Kubernetes security easier and help you avoid common pitfalls.Image from haalkab on Pixabay.Kubernetes is hands-down the go-to tool for managing containerized applications, yet it...
2025-06-21
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Erin West gave the keynote for the 2025 Techno Security & Digital Forensics East conference on cyber scams. How bad is it? Well, according to the Internet Crime Complaint...
2025-06-20 (first published: 2025-06-06)
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I have just finished an update for the spark connect dotnet lib that contains the DeltaTable implementation so that we can now use .NET to maintain...
2025-06-20
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For a variety of reasons, including your Microsoft MVP activity reports, you might want to summarize your GitHub activity across multiple repos. For contributors to Microsoft open-source docs on GitHub,...
2025-06-20 (first published: 2025-06-05)
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One of the things I’ve been experimenting with in AI is taking things other people do and seeing how well the AI works. In this case, I took a...
2025-06-20
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By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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