AI: Blog a Day – Day 9: HuggingFace – The Home of AI Models
today on Day 9 I would like to talk about HuggingFace. if you are learning AI practically, HuggingFace is one of the most important platforms you will come across....
2026-03-09
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Semantic Model Power Query vs Dataflow Gen2 in Fabric
In my recent blog post, Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric, I talked about the evolving authoring experience in Microsoft Fabric and how report development is increasingly moving...
2026-03-09
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Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management wants everyone to be more productive with AI. Redgate Monitor isn’t immune from this wave....
2026-03-09
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Bind Variables – Worse than you were told
Many of you probably know Martin Bach. He’s a colleague here at Oracle although we’ve both been good mates in the Oracle community long before either of us joined...
2026-03-09
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector databases — all comes together here! What is RAG? all the AI model has predefined...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-03-08)
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7 we would learn about Vectors and Vector Databases. this is a place where AI data...
2026-03-23 (first published: 2026-03-07)
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now Day 6 is inside of AI , how AI understand us, as computer do not...
2026-03-27 (first published: 2026-03-06)
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The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has more detail. This is the text from the facing page: What we do is very...
2026-03-06
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ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during debugging with a BadRequest error, even though it validates successfully. If you’re wondering, this is...
2026-03-23 (first published: 2026-03-06)
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Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff
Something has shifted quietly in 2026. The developers I know/respect—the ones actually shipping, not just posting about shipping—stopped talking about MCP. No dramatic announcement. No hot take thread. They...
2026-03-18 (first published: 2026-03-06)
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