More on Strengthfinders
This past week I attended a one hour facilitated group session that was a continuation of the Strengthfinders assessment. One...
2016-08-02
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SQLAndy
The ROI of SQLSaturday for PASS & Decreased Event Funding
Returning to the post about Making SQSaturday Sustainable (see also a follow post about addressing concerns) it mentioned two topics...
2016-08-05 (first published: 2016-07-30)
1,487 reads
The End of the BAC–Why?
In a post titled The Future of the BA Community PASS announced that there would be no Business Analytics conference...
2016-07-30
828 reads
600 Miles, Limits, Fears, and Possibilities for SQLSaturday
Last week PASS published some new guidance for SQLSaturday that sets a 600 mile rule (has since been updated, still...
2016-07-28
1,350 reads
SSC Editorial: Should I Stay or Go?
Really late linking to it, Should I Stay or Go is about being more assertive about making the decision to...
2016-07-18
362 reads
Karla Set the Standard
Last week Karla Landrum announced that she will be leaving her position as Community Evangelist later this year after five...
2016-07-22 (first published: 2016-07-17)
1,641 reads
GIT Learning Resources
I’ve spent most of my career using VSS and TFS, mainly because that’s what was being used. Better any source...
2016-07-15
442 reads
Retrieving the SQL Server License Key
Strangely enough its been a long time since I installed SQL in production. It’s almost always done by someone on...
2016-06-27
1,699 reads
PASS Nominating Committee Update
Today PASS released a bunch of stuff for the upcoming election including the attributes of an “ideal candidate”. We put...
2016-06-22
421 reads
Names From the Past
Can you guess what all of these people have in common?
Shawn WeisfeldJoe HealyBarry RalstonTrey JohnsonJon WinerWes DumeyDonnie ReynoldsKevin JacobsJoseph MemmoBrian...
2016-06-22
487 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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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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