Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we will discuss more on different free notebooks available to write / code LLM and get...
2026-03-05
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I’m a big fan of the “instantclient” solution to Oracle connectivity. No more calls to “runInstaller”, no registry files on Windows, it is just download-unzip-go. That makes installation a...
2026-03-05
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Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today on Day 4 I would like to write about the Transformer architecture — the foundation...
2026-03-18 (first published: 2026-03-04)
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One of the nice things about Flyway Desktop is that it helps you manage your database code as a project and see what changes are being built. However, many...
2026-03-16 (first published: 2026-03-04)
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Microsoft Fabric (not to be confused with the more general term “fabric” in DevOps) is an integrated data and analytics platform designed for modern data-driven workloads, such as data...
2026-03-16 (first published: 2026-03-04)
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I’m honored to be hosting T-SQL Tuesday — edition #192. For those who may not know the history, T-SQL Tuesday started back in December 2009 when Adam Machanic (Blog |LinkedIn)...
2026-03-03
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Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI, Today on Day 3 I would like to write about LLM models — Open Source...
2026-03-13 (first published: 2026-03-03)
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Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure Data Factory instance (or Azure Synapse Pipelines) and you have a couple of linked services...
2026-03-11 (first published: 2026-03-03)
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In the realm of software development and content creation, the deployment pipeline serves as a crucial bridge between innovation and implementation. Whether you are fine-tuning code, testing new features,...
2026-03-11 (first published: 2026-03-03)
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I just need a few hours of your time… We get a variation of this request a LOT. So now it’s time to do something about it! Ad Hoc...
2026-03-02
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By Zikato
A cryptic message, a book cipher hidden in art provenance records, and a trail...
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
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