Notes from the June 2008 oPASS Meeting
Our main presentation was on 'Unlocking the Power of SQL Compact' by Steve Lasker & Ginny Caughey. Went better than I expected...
2008-06-04
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SQLAndy
Managing Money
First, the usual disclaimer: I'm not a financial professional, so take all of the following with a grain of salt...
2008-06-03
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World Wild Telescope & Misc Microsoft Stuff
Just took a look at the World Wild Telescope and it looks interesting, perhaps just as importantly looks cool! Don't...
2008-06-03
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Reminder - SQLSaturday #4 in Orlando June 7-8, 2008
Last call! We've got a 2 day event running this time. Saturday is the more traditional (it's only #4 after...
2008-06-02
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Security by Obscurity?
If you're not familiar with the term it means to make something safe/secure by using a trick to hide the...
2008-06-01
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Link: Avoiding Burnout
Ran across this article about burnout and thought it worth posting. Burnout is not fun to experience and heading it...
2008-05-29
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Good Links on Speaking
Brian Kelley posted Giving a Presentation about a week ago and is worth reading, in particular his suggestion about Toastmasters...
2008-05-28
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Speaking at PASS Summit 2008
Received news today that one of my submitted sessions - Should You Move Into Management - was accepted for the summit. Good...
2008-05-27
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Thoughts on Virtualization
I get a lot of questions about virtualization and really have few answers. At a high level it's not hard...
2008-05-25
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Visiting Birmingham SQL Group in June
I'll be doing a presentation for the Steel City SQL Group on June 17 and then on June 18th I'm doing...
2008-05-23
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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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