How Often Do You Patch?
Patching is a chore that any system administrator needs to deal with. As SQL Server 2016 moves out of mainstream support, Steve asks if you have a plan and how often you ensure systems are patched.
2021-07-23
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Seriously Real Time Data Processing
Autonomous cars provide a great environment for large scale, real-time data processing.
2021-07-19
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Lots of Data and AI Helping Firefighters
Using AI/ML to help process large amounts of data allows us to tackle problems that we might not otherwise be able to work on.
2021-06-21
80 reads
Finding Legal Data
Using data scraped from the web might be convenient, but is it legal. Perhaps more importantly, is it moral? Steve has a few thoughts.
2021-04-19
91 reads
Disclosing the How
As we use more Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning tools in our applications, we need to understand how they work.
2021-03-08
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AI Can Improve Healthcare
One area where AI has found some traction is in the healthcare industry, where is seems to be helping improve care.
2021-02-08
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The Degradation of the Turing Test
Are computers getting smart enough to pass the Turing test or are humans getting worse at representing themselves as intelligent?
2020-10-15
113 reads
AI Data
Data is important for AI projects, but the ethics and privacy implications are complex. A new project from Microsoft aims to help users control their data and make it available for use.
2020-10-07
64 reads
The Computing Revolution
Steve reflects on some of the ideas of how Microsoft imagines the future of computing.
2020-07-27
93 reads
Smarter Design
Many of us have used PowerPoint, which has grown smarter through the use of Machine Learning.
2020-05-13
115 reads
Blogs
Architect a disaster recovery for SQL Server on AWS: Part 1
New blog post - Architect a disaster recovery for SQL Server on AWS: Part...
Seamlessly migrate large SQL databases using AWS Snowball and AWS DataSync.
New blog post - Seamlessly migrate large SQL databases using AWS Snowball and AWS...
Daily Coping 3 Aug 2021
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Forums
How to determine whether SSIS is being used?
Hello I've inherited some dev environment which looks like was abandoned, but I'd like...
xml output from sql query
The script runs but gives me "no data to export" I see data in...
Dynamically Update A Parameter to Pass to Another Report
I have an existing SSRS Report which displays the following: UserName, UserID, DOB Bill...
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