Follow Your Hunch
One of the positives of AI is that you can try things on which you might not otherwise have time to experiment.
What Happens When You Ask a Local AI to Query Your Database?
Learn how you can run a simple LLM on your own machine with Python.
Your Database Just Hit One Terabyte: Now What?
You were minding your own business, and all of a sudden it happened.
Calculating the Harmonic Mean in Power BI
Learn how you can add a harmonic mean calculation in Power BI.
The Slow Growing Problems
Not every problem is going to fire off an alert, but it still might be something that you want to track.
Display Active Slicers in Power BI using Dynamic DAX
Learn how to enhance visibility using slicers in Power BI for better report filtering and user experience.
Liability for AI Errors
Who is liable for mistakes made when listening to AI tooling? In at least one case, Steve isn't sure.
SQL ART: Who's Blocking Who? Visualising SQL Server Blocking With Spatial Geometry
Taking SQL art from shamrocks and Easter eggs to something your DBA manager might actually care about. If you've been following my SQL spatial art series — shamrocks, Easter eggs, Christmas trees — you'll know I have a habit of finding increasingly creative misuses for SQL Server's geometry data type. Most of them have been […]
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?
How data scientists work with PostgreSQL from Python (and how to write queries that don’t break at scale)
In this article, learn how PostgreSQL powers data science workflows, including query execution, performance optimization, indexing, data retrieval, and more.
Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
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Question of the Day
Squared Values
What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
SELECT SQUARE('12') See possible answers