I’m Speaking at SQLSaturday Cambridge!
Speaking at SQLSaturday Cambridge!
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Cambridge on September 8th 2018! And wow,...
2018-08-31
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Talking Data: Six Word Stories
In six words, can you give a compelling description of your data?
I’m taking the Microsoft DAT248x course as part of...
2018-08-30
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Maps in Power BI. Do I really need them?
(2018-Aug-30) While preparing for a recent Power BI Toronto meetup session, I found a very valuable whitepaper on Maps in...
2018-08-30
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ARM vs Classic Deployment in Azure
When Azure Resource Manager (ARM) was created back in 2014, I (like many) thought, “What does that mean?” Up until...
2018-08-30
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Repair Visual Studio for Mac: Extension node not found in path
A few months ago I ran into a problem after updating Visual Studio for Mac, where it would not start....
2018-08-30
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Custom Data Purging in SQL Monitor
In talking to a customer recently, they were worried about the amount of data kept by SQL Monitor. That’s a...
2018-08-30
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The unwanted Side Effects of enabling Read Committed Snapshot Isolation
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2018-08-30
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Helpful Undocumented Stored Procedure “sp_MsForEachDB”
This week’s post will be a short one to talk about a very helpful stored procedure in SQL Server called...
2018-08-30
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How Azure Storage Kick Starts Your Big Data Projects
So, your boss says, ‘Let’s do big data!’ And you think: ‘I don’t even know what that means or what...
2018-08-29
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Employee Agreements & Contracts: Best Practices (23 minute video)
So you’ve got an employee agreement in front of you: now what? In this episode, I talk about practical steps you should take to make sure that you understand...
2018-08-29
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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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