50 Years of Microsoft
Steve looks back at his history with Microsoft and asks what your memories are of using their products.
2025-04-25
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Steve looks back at his history with Microsoft and asks what your memories are of using their products.
2025-04-25
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Read a summary of the data platform announcements from Microsoft at the PASS Data Community Summit 2024 last week.
2024-11-18
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Today Steve wonders if official solutions from a vendor are that important.
2024-11-15
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2024-11-06
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Learn about the Microsoft sessions at the 2024 PASS Data Community Summit from Bob Ward.
2024-10-28
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Get ready to meet Microsoft's experts on-site in the exhibit hall and in multiple educational sessions (including a pre-con, keynote and learning pathway). Watch a sneak peek of Microsoft's learning pathway 'Becoming an Azure SQL DBA – Advancing the Role of the On-Premises SQL Server DBA'
2024-09-18
Microsoft will be presenting a number of sessions at the PASS Data Community Summit 2023. Read about their plans for the event and register to come if you can.
2024-05-14 (first published: 2023-11-03)
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Today Steve has a few thoughts, and links, from the Build Keynote last week, which featured AI technology.
2023-05-26
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2023-04-29
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New licensing rules are coming for using your SQL Server licenses in the cloud.
2022-09-03
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By Chris Yates
There was a time when the Chief Data Officer lived in the shadows of...
By Rayis Imayev
"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help...
By Steve Jones
I saw some good reviews of the small gemma3 model in a few places...
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SELECT TOP 10 gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 10) AS gs ORDER BY NEWID () OPTION (RECOMPILE); go DECLARE @a int = 10; SELECT TOP (@a) gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, @a) AS gs ORDER BY NEWID () OPTION (RECOMPILE);In the actual query plans, what is the estimated number of rows for each batch? See possible answers