There’s the old saying “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t -- you’re right” from Henry Ford. I’ve thought about this more recently while reading the book The Rise of Superman Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance which talks about how athletes have performed so called impossible feats over the past few […]
2020-10-31
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2020-10-30
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I heard someone at the 2020 DevOps Enterprise Summit conference say that quality needs to be built in. That's something that many, or hopefully most, of us believe. Everyone ought to do quality work and build it into their daily tasks. However, the person speaking went further and defined this in a way I like: […]
2020-10-29
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2020-10-28
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IBM is breaking up and Steve thinks back about the evolution of the company and where they might go from here.
2020-10-27
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SQL Server shares some data with Microsoft, but the use is documented. Steve sees this as a model for how companies might share information.
2020-10-26
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The term DevOps gets horribly abused. Don’t get me started on all the weird additions to it like DevSecOps. No, I just mean the term itself gets beaten up quite a lot. It’s to the point where people are starting to shy away from talking about it. I’ve even changed my approach when discussing DevOps […]
2020-10-24
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How much do you love technology? Is this reflected in a budget? Let us know this week.
2020-10-23 (first published: 2016-10-21)
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Today we have a guest editorial from Alice Smith as Steve is away. Conflict can be good in a highly functional team, as noted today from the manager of the publishing group at Redgate Software.
2020-10-22 (first published: 2016-10-13)
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Steve Jones looks a little more closely at the Azure SQL Data Warehouse, perhaps a viable choice for many of us.
2020-10-21 (first published: 2016-07-14)
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There was a time when the Chief Data Officer lived in the shadows of...
By Rayis Imayev
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By Steve Jones
I saw some good reviews of the small gemma3 model in a few places...
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I have two calls to the GENERATE_SERIES TVF in this code:
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