SQL Saturday Houston #107 Recap
I enjoyed a long weekend in Houston starting with Kalen Delaney’s Pre-con on Query Tuning. I have learned over the...
2012-04-27
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Cool Data Visualization
I attended a course from Edward Tufte a few years ago on Data Visualization, and while I learned some neat...
2012-04-27
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Appending New Rows Only
I saw a question in the forums related to inserting new rows into a SQL Server table only if they...
2012-04-27
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Slacking Off: Totally TED
Lately I’ve taken to watching TED talks in the evening. They’re thought-provoking, usually entertaining, and, best of all when watching...
2012-04-27
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Big Apple SQL - SQLSaturday #158 NYC Announced!
Come this August 4th, 2012, the Big Apple will be baking, but not just because of the hot summer day...
2012-04-27
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SSWUG Expo..I'm up!
I am proud to say that one of the webcasts I taped last year for SSWUG is part of the...
2012-04-26
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April Hammond .net User Group Presentation - SQL Server Security and Permissions
Here's the slide deck and sample files from last night's presentation at the Hammond .net User Group. We discussed SQL...
2012-04-26
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SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries (April 2012)
It is hard to believe, but SQL Server 2012 has been GA for nearly a month now. Because of this,...
2012-04-26
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The Mentoring Experiment – Cycle 2
It’s been a long time, almost a year since Andy Warren and I kicked off The Mentoring Experiment. We had...
2012-04-26
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AlwaysOn Failover Bug
I just found a little bug in AlwaysOn. It’s actually not that big a deal, but it’s interesting. In a...
2012-04-26
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Blogs
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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