Midlands PASS Meeting – February 5, 2019
Midlands PASS (Columbia, SC) will be hosting Shannon Lowder on February 5, 2019, from 5:30-8:00 PM. He will be speaking...
2019-01-29
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What a Software Evangelist Does – and Where the Job is Going (Dear SQL DBA Episode 67)
I’ve been working as an Evangelist at Redgate for close to six months now, and one question keeps coming up: what exactly does an Evangelist do at a software...
2019-01-29
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Storage options for SQL Server database files in Azure
If you are using SQL Server in an Azure VM (IaaS) you have a number of options of where to store the database files (.mdf, .ldf, and .ndf). Most...
2019-01-29
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Storage options for SQL Server database files in Azure
If you are using SQL Server in an Azure VM (IaaS) you have a number of options of where to...
2019-01-29
1,077 reads
Opening a Twitch Channel, Data Wisdom
I want to let you know that I’m starting a channel on Twitch. You’ll be able to see it here. I’m going to start doing regular live events on...
2019-01-29
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Opening a Twitch Channel, Data Wisdom
I want to let you know that I’m starting a channel on Twitch. You’ll be able to see it here....
2019-01-29
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Query tuning: The IN clause
This post will cover the IN clause and another way to rewrite the same logic. I don’t intend to say...
2019-01-29
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Cardinality: Not Just For The Birds
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube.
When building indexes for your queries, the order of your index key columns matters. SQL...
2019-01-29
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Cardinality: Not Just For The Birds
Watch this week's video on YouTube
When building indexes for your queries, the order of your index key columns matters. SQL Server can make the most effective use of an...
2019-01-29
9 reads
Cardinality: Not Just For The Birds
Watch this week's video on YouTube
When building indexes for your queries, the order of your index key columns matters. SQL Server can make the most effective use of an...
2019-01-29
10 reads
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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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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