Au Revoir for now
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight for Brussels and this is my last day at work for a couple of weeks....
2026-10-07
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The Voice of the DBA
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that Look Too Easy. I decided to give you a few thoughts from me on the...
2026-10-05
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Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides – ArchitectingZeroDowntime.pptx Slides also at: https://dayofdata.org/2026-10-03-dayofdata1150/#schedule Code: https://github.com/way0utwest/ZeroDowntime Book: Refactoring Databases Some interesting questions. I’ll write...
2026-10-04
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The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of Redgate. Those values came from our founders, Simon Galbraith and Neil Davidson. I am lucky...
2026-10-02
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Keeping Track of my ConEmu CLIs
I use ConEmu for my terminal interface. I’m still on Windows 10 at home, and for consistency’s sake, I run this on my Win11 laptop and the home machine....
2026-09-30
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Flyway Tips: Object History
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the object history for different schema changes, so as you are evaluating how your changes might...
2026-10-09 (first published: 2026-09-28)
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Car Update September 2026
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are behind Tesla with software. A few of the weird UX and software engineering decisions they’ve...
2026-09-25
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Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can, and it really depends on how you run Ollama and what your hardware is. Ollama...
2026-10-07 (first published: 2026-09-23)
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Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the audience. I’m adding some of these into blogs, and this was one: How do I...
2026-10-02 (first published: 2026-09-21)
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A New Word: Dorgone
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation without anyone noticing your absence. I’m not often concerned about announcing my arrival or departure...
2026-09-18
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
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