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SQL Bits 2025 Wrap

SQL Bits 2025 was amazing, as always. It’s been my favorite conference to attend, with lots of friends, a family atmosphere, and some amazing speakers from whom I learn...

2025-06-22

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A New Word: Lackout

lackout – n. the sudden awareness that you’re finally over someone, noticing that the same voice that once triggered a cocktail of emotions now evokes nothing at all –...

2025-06-21

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Moving to Rancher Desktop

I’ve been very happy with Docker Desktop for years, running it on both laptop and desktop. However, a corporate decision was made to move to Rancher Desktop, so I...

2025-07-04 (first published: )

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Down the Rabbit Hole: Dealing with Ad-Hoc Data Requests

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"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help...

Adding a Local Model to Ollama through the GUI

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I saw some good reviews of the small gemma3 model in a few places...

Connect resiliently to SQL Server

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 Why you should connect resiliently to SQL Server Transient failures happen — in the cloud...

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Powershell extract

By Sqladmin1

$server = "YourServer" $db = "YourDatabase" $sqlFile = "C:\path\query.sql" $outFile = "C:\path\output.xlsx" # Run...

Powershell extract

By Sqladmin1

$server = "YourServer" $db = "YourDatabase" $sqlFile = "C:\path\query.sql" $outFile = "C:\path\output.xlsx" # Run...

Some query values change when query is run but not others. Why?

By water490

Hi everyone I have a 1000 line SQL query that is too long to...

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