Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series on making data AI-ready. Part 1 covered what AI-ready data means, Part 2 looked at...
2026-10-12 (first published: 2026-10-01)
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I recently attended SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, and as you would expect, there was a LOT of talk about Fabric, Azure, AI, agents, Copilot, and where the...
2026-09-30
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I use ConEmu for my terminal interface. I’m still on Windows 10 at home, and for consistency’s sake, I run this on my Win11 laptop and the home machine....
2026-09-30
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Creating a Fabric workspace takes about 30 seconds. Restructuring workspaces after people have built content in them takes a lot longer. Moving content to another workspace usually means redeploying...
2026-10-09 (first published: 2026-09-29)
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It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the object history for different schema changes, so as you are evaluating how your changes might...
2026-10-09 (first published: 2026-09-28)
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Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are behind Tesla with software. A few of the weird UX and software engineering decisions they’ve...
2026-09-25
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Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series on making data AI-ready. Part 1 covered the fundamentals of AI-ready data, this article looks...
2026-10-07 (first published: 2026-09-24)
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Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can, and it really depends on how you run Ollama and what your hardware is. Ollama...
2026-10-07 (first published: 2026-09-23)
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The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to be an ever present fear. The technology changes but the fear and the marketing around...
2026-10-05 (first published: 2026-09-22)
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The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting something a little more practical for day-to-day DBA work. Something I could open, work through...
2026-10-05 (first published: 2026-09-22)
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This month’s blogging party is hosted by Jeff Ianucci – his challenge is to...
As for me, I'll keep writing whenever time permits. I don't expect every post...
By Steve Jones
This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and...
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I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers