Google – NotebookLM on ThakurVinay blog
Google has contributed a lot of stuff/enhancement on its portfolio, google is no longer a search engine. it is a Major IT company in the industry. having strong base...
2026-05-28
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Vinay Thakur
SSMS Evaluation – future ready
In previous posts, we looked at the SQL Server engine. for us DBAs, the SSMS plays an important role for handling/Managing SQL Server. we have been using these tools...
2026-05-14 (first published: 2026-05-13)
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Future IT Roles – Agentic Architect and AI Boom!!
These days everything is changing to AI World, IT roles are getting changed and it is going towards AI ways, everyone in IT should be aware of AI –...
2026-05-07
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OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and Aamir Lakhani- with great knowledge . during the session learned about OpenClaw and more. I...
2026-04-29 (first published: 2026-04-17)
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SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE which is introduced on SQL Server 2008, TDE is at rest has limitation as data...
2026-04-13 (first published: 2026-04-04)
264 reads
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this feature encrypts a physical layer of Database files Data/log files protection at Disk / storage...
2026-04-04 (first published: 2026-04-03)
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SQL Server Journey Part 2: Modern Era (2017 – 2026) – AI/Cloud First
Following up on my Part 1 baseline, the journey from 2017 onward changed how we look at the “Engine.” We moved from Service Packs to a faster world of...
2026-03-28 (first published: 2026-03-27)
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SQL Server Journey (Part 1)- Enterprise Database 2016
Continued thinking about my Journey blog where we have to look back at the revolutionary of SQL Server till SQL Server 2025. I would like to brief more on...
2026-03-27 (first published: 2026-03-26)
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 10: LangChain – Building AI Applications
Continuing from Day 9 where we covered HuggingFace — today on Day 10 we would talk about LangChain and LlamaIndex. these are two very popular frameworks that make building...
2026-03-10
10 reads
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
9 reads
Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
SSRS Reminded Me of the Time Microsoft Retired TMG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SSRS Reminded Me of the...
Getting results from a Procedure to join to a query
I have a need to execute a stored procedure and return the results to...
Upgrade 2016 Standard to 2022 Express
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers