Grant Fritchey walks through a real troubleshooting saga – using Wine, a shim DLL, a misconfigured registry entry, and a lot of trial and error – to get a BridgeCom Maverick radio’s Windows CPS running on Linux Mint.
2026-11-02
Steve notes that PostgreSQL 19 is late, but the reasons and implications extend to other platforms, and really, all other software.
2026-10-31
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AI LLMs can help find bugs, especially security vulnerabilities, in code. That appears to be happening with SQL Server.
2026-10-28
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Learn how you can download and run a local model to help with your SQL Server work.
2026-10-26
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How to build an app through an LLM: switching from CoPilot to Claude, a directional term-lookup feature
2026-10-19
2026-10-07
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Are GenAI models getting better? Is today's model the worst one you'll use in the future? Steve has a few thoughts.
2026-10-05
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Steve chats with a few developers and gets some insights into how they are coping with AI.
2026-09-25
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A company trains a custom model on their own data for $40mm. Is this something that other companies might try at smaller scales?
2026-09-23
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This Friday Steve is looking for those things you wish you didn't have to handle at work. Let us know what tasks you avoid and would rather hand off to others.
2026-09-11
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By Steve Jones
I had seen these roles in various instances, but never dug into the new...
By Brian Kelley
During COVID, I attended training on software/enterprise architecture given by Mark Richards. One of...
For me, the objective is straightforward: have a backup strategy that is reliable, understandable,...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
Has anyone encountered recurring request latency when using Microsoft Access with SQL Server 2025...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The ##MS_DatabaseConnector## User
On SQL Server 2025, I run this code as a sysadmin:
CREATE LOGIN Demo WITH PASSWORD = 'Demo1234567' GO ALTER SERVER ROLE ##MS_DatabaseConnector## ADD MEMBER Demo GOI then login as Demo and run this:
USE sandbox go SELECT CURRENT_USERWhat is returned? See possible answers