My plan is to start with Linux Mint in springtime on my home machine because my Windows 10 machine will not be supported after autumn.

On the topic of SQL...

Notebooks are available in VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/datascience/jupyter-notebooks

You can also connect to postgresql: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-ossdata.vscode-postgresql

I don't know how well the experience will be for db dev, but...

Oppps, my typo. Still stuck in the old world.

Schema corrected and points awarded back. Rune is correct, this is asking for unique values, of which there are 8. Two ties.

Interesting perspectives. I'd urge you to think about a couple things as you try to decide how AI fits in the world.

1. What did Stack Overflow do for programming? Good...

Local mistral model is smarter:  (latest, 3.8GB one)

Local Deepseek 1.5b model

Alright, I had to try.

Claude:

I'd tend to agree with Eirikur here. You can work with FTS and Contains but it's a weird programming paradigm and a bit flaky to get working. It is possible...

A good rule of thumb that I've often used when creating something new is to ask myself, "will I be able to understand what I've done when I look...

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In the near future, there probably will be fewer DBAs, but they will all be an AI augmented 10x DBA.

It's similar to the 1 million industrial farmers we have...

seulement moi

I find using copilot or chatgpt or anything else to help me get started is very annoying. Though, I don't often find writer's block with these things, so maybe...

Char(10) and date aren't binary types.  They throw errors. I agree that "binary expression that isn't a large object" isn't a great definition. On this page (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/ado-net/sql/modify-large-value-max-data?view=sql-server-ver16) it says LOB...

A LOB is a type. Binary and varbinary can store very large objects of many bytes. This function works on numeric types.

What you tend to find with this new technology is that the real problems come from something you haven't foreseen. So maybe that's not the worst thing 🫤 We'll...