How to grow the exposure of a Data Platform based conference (SQL Saturday South Island)
SQL Saturday conferences are awesome.
That is the opening line of this blog post – because it’s true and understated.
If you’re reading...
2017-04-01
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The Hybrid DBA's Blog
Answer to “Could not locate file ‘xxx_Log’ for database ‘xxx’ in sys.database_files”
This blog post is a form of resolution to the issue of not being able to shrink a transaction log...
2017-03-24
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Having OCD in Azure…
Everyone gives OCD a hard time. When in fact it is something to embrace.
I am of course talking about Operational...
2017-03-22
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I like data – so Azure SQL is (initially) my focus..
My journey with Azure has been around what it can do for me – and the company I work for (Jade...
2017-03-22
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Using Azure CLI to do stuff….
For this post I am going to talk about one of the methods I use to manage my Azure resources.
The...
2017-03-21
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Blogs
Questions and Answers from Running a Local LLM
By Steve Jones
I had a few random questions from my Running a Local LLM on Your...
Overview of Claude AI Models: Which One to Choose?
By Arun Sirpal
For those entering the AI space whether professionally or personally I wanted to give...
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
Forums
A question about how to store the address in the database
I have an app that has an address field on the customer and the...
SSIS package failing intermittently on last Excel Component
Good Afternoon, I have a Job which "fires" off an SSIS package (that is...
T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL in SQL Server 2025:...
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Multiple Sequence Values
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