SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO

SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO

The purpose of this article is to introduce a PowerShell script that I wrote and published on...

5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop

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Claude Context Window

Every Claude conversation has a context window. It is the total amount of text Claude can work with in a single chat — your messages, its replies, uploaded files,...

Google – NotebookLM on ThakurVinay blog

Google has contributed a lot of stuff/enhancement on its portfolio, google is no longer a search engine. it is a Major IT company in the industry. having strong base...

Distance Metrics for Semantic Similarity Searches in SQL Server 2025

Next up in my series talking about The Burrito Bot is diving into the different distance metrics used to calculate how a vector generated from a query compares to...

First dabblings with APEXlang

Obviously there are plenty of folks in the Oracle APEX team with waaaayy more experience in APEXlang than I have, so this isn’t an in-depth expose into all of...

The end of an era – why I chose not to renew my MVP

Two years ago, two things happened within a few days of each other. I retired from 3Cloud going on full time disability due to ALS, and I was awarded...

PowerShell Strikes Back: A New Script

This is it. The final chapter of PowerShell Strikes Back. Over the past four weeks, you’ve built a real foundation. You know that single quotes are literal and double...

Claude Desktop

Claude is more than a chat window. The desktop experience includes structured workspaces, generated outputs, integrations, execution capabilities, memory and reusable workflows. This is a quick introduction to some...

PostgreSQL: Diagnosing and Fixing a Sequential Scan with No Filter Predicate

A sequential scan is not always a problem — PostgreSQL's planner often chooses one correctly for small tables or queries that return most of a table's rows. The dangerous...