2025-04-21
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
How Much AI Code Would You Use?
Today Steve asks the question of how much of your code could be written by GenAI.
2025-04-14
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Create Raw Zone Tables using Generative AI: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
In this first article on the Fabric Modern Data Platform, we look at how to use Generative AI to build tables.
2025-04-07 (first published: 2025-04-02)
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Is GenAI Coming Faster Than You Think?
GenAI technologies have created a lot of concern among many tech workers. Steve has a few thoughts on how these technologies might impact data professionals.
2025-03-31
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DeepSeek: What is new with this AI technology?
Learn how the DeepSeek GenAI LLM works and see how it produces SQL code.
2025-03-31
3,569 reads
AI in SQL Server 2025: Embeddings
One of the cornerstones of AI is a concept called embeddings. Virtually every AI model, whether for text, video, or audio, uses something related to embeddings. Starting with SQL Server 2025, this is a term you’ll be hearing a lot, as its potential for applications is enormous!
2025-03-17
Shadow AI Data Leak Risk or “From the Desk of I saw that Coming”
CSO recently published an article based on a report from Harmonic about generative AI data leaks, and the findings were eye-opening. According to the report, over 8% of employee prompts to public large language models (LLMs) contained sensitive data, ranging from security and compliance issues to privacy and legal vulnerabilities. This wasn’t just a handful […]
2025-03-08
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Why Not Use AI?
Steve re-posts a question from someone else, asking why you wouldn't want to use an AI.
2025-02-26
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2025-02-24
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Implementing Vector Datatype with Azure SQL Server
This article shows how to insert data into a database, create embeddings, and then use this data to search the data with a natural language interface.
2025-02-14
2,571 reads
Blogs
Flyway Tips: AI Deployment Script Descriptions
By Steve Jones
With the AI push being everywhere, Redgate is no exception. We’ve been getting requests,...
A New Word: Fawtle
By Steve Jones
fawtle – n. a weird little flaw built into your partner that somehow only...
Post-quantum key exchange – Insurance policy for your packets
AWS recently added support for Post-Quantum Key Exchange for TLS in Application Load Balancer...
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Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers