Well Run Companies
One of the things I use to identify how well a company is managed is by looking at how (well)...
2008-07-13
1,626 reads
SQLAndy
SQLSaturday #5 & #6 Update
SQLSaturday #5 in Olympia is progressing nicely. Greg, Russ, and team have locked in a venue and with registration just...
2008-07-11
414 reads
Vacation Reading - Boyd & Mullane
I did quite a bit of reading during a recent week off including two biographies. One was Boyd: The Fighter...
2008-07-10
397 reads
Employee or 1099, Part 2
A couple weeks back I posted Employee or 1099 and now that my friend Wes Dumey has posted his last installment, I...
2008-07-09
322 reads
Ironkey Personal - Super Secure USB?
Ran across IronKey Personal in PC Magazine and thought some of you might be interested. It has built in encryption,...
2008-07-08
285 reads
Listening on a Non Standard Port
I had a note to myself to write up some notes about listening on a non standard port, but it...
2008-07-07
406 reads
One Year Blog Review
Just over a year ago I decided to start a blog and I put an item on my calendar to...
2008-07-06
362 reads
Celebrating July 4th
I try to limit the number of truly off topic posts I do, but today is a special day in...
2008-07-03
244 reads
INETA Champs Program
My friend Shawn Weiseld posted a note about the new INETA Champs Program. Looks interesting and is a nice step...
2008-07-02
352 reads
Growing New Speakers/How to Go National/PASS Needs a Policy
I commented in an earlier post about the challenges PASS has in trying to select a 100 or so speakers...
2008-07-01
300 reads
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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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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