SQL Saturday Organizer Q&A
A little while ago, Ray Kim (blog | twitter) asked a few folks who organize SQL Saturday events a few questions for his blog. The results are in and...
2020-04-09
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SQL Prompt and SSMS 18.5
I downloaded SSMS 18.5, as there were a lot of fixes in here and thought this was a good upgrade to try. I’d heard reports of major changes in...
2020-04-08
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Jupyter Book Challenges in ADS
I was excited to try the Jupyter Book feature in the March Azure Data Studio (ADS) release. I’ve thought notebooks were an interesting way to teach and I’m looking...
2020-04-22 (first published: 2020-04-08)
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Join me (virtually) in Adelaide!
I will be presenting a session to the Adelaide SQL Server User Group on April 15th, 2020, and if you’re awake at that time (it’ll be 9pm on April...
2020-04-08
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Data Bits – Episode 5 – Louis Davidson
The one and only – Dr. SQL – Louis Davidson (b|t|t|t) stopped by for a chat! Relational Algebra, Disney, Dollywood and a SQL Dump Truck ??
The post Data Bits...
2020-04-17 (first published: 2020-04-08)
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Has this login been used recently?
I get asked this every now and again, along with the companion When was the last time this login was ... Continue reading
2020-04-20 (first published: 2020-04-08)
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Make Database Code Reusable in SQL Source Control with Deployment Filters
When I first began working with databases, I was lucky to land a job at a little start-up which had solid development and operations processes: all our code, including...
2020-04-20 (first published: 2020-04-08)
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Switching between different Azure Data Factory environments
When working with Azure Data Factory, it’s possible you have multiple ADF environments. For example, you can have one for dev, one for test and one for production. Unfortunately,...
2020-04-21 (first published: 2020-04-08)
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Adjusting pod eviction time in Kubernetes
One of the best features of Kubernetes is the built-in high availability. When a node goes offline, all pods on that node are terminated and new ones spun up...
2020-04-17 (first published: 2020-04-08)
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Azure SQL Database – Error Logs?
Ok, so Azure SQL doesn’t really have its own error log based somewhere on a machine within \MSSQLLog directory but the closest thing you will get is a system...
2020-04-07
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Blogs
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...
Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...
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Finely Tuned Models
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Question of the Day
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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