It’s interesting how an OR short circuits.
I recently did a post on the case expression short circuting and received a very very interesting comment from Chad ... Continue reading
2019-06-27 (first published: 2019-06-17)
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Weekly reading #18
Ready for vacations? The CodingFamily team is almost ready – we have some vacations plans including great conferences during summer and in the autumn. T-SQL bugs, pitfalls, and best...
2019-06-17
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Last Week Reading (2019-06-16)
Hello Data girls and guys! A lot of Microsoft’s announcements in many areas of the data platform. Here you have a big portion of news today. Press Unlock the...
2019-06-16
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Back with new focus
Back with a new focus First let me say wow can’t believe that it has been almost 3 years since I have blogged. The last few years my career...
2019-06-16
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A Double Day
I’m traveling back from Australia today. A few weeks ago I lost a day when I flew West across the Pacific. Today I get it back, with a different...
2019-06-16
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SQLSaturday Automatic Messages
For those who haven’t used the admin tools for SQLSaturday when an event is created there are a set of messages loaded automatically. It’s up the event admin if...
2019-07-12 (first published: 2019-06-15)
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Using the Announcement/News Part of SQLSaturday
One of the interesting but not often used features of the SQLSaturday tools is the announcement/news (in the admin tools, its Message Center | Announce News) to do mini-blog...
2019-07-05 (first published: 2019-06-15)
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SQLSaturday Orlando 2019 Begins
We’ll be event number 911, set for September 28th at our usual location at Seminole State College. Maybe something interesting to do there as far as a theme. Call...
2019-06-14
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Notes from Jacksonville, Atlanta, and South Florida
Misc notes: Jax. Ice cream break in the afternoon is nice, but the waffle cones on site make all the difference, the smell is hard to miss! Jax. Rooms...
2019-06-14
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Query machine name of the sql server instance - the hard or the harder way
I was at a client where they are using non-Microsoft clustering technology to achieve the high availability of SQL Server instances....
2019-06-26 (first published: 2019-06-13)
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Blogs
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
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RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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