While Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are powerful, they often struggle with long-term dependencies due to the vanishing gradient problem. Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTMs) address this issue by introducing memory cells and gates. For beginners, understanding LSTM components, such as the input, output, and forget gates, can be challenging. This tip breaks down LSTMs in an intuitive way, highlighting their importance and practical applications.

Can You Ask for a Raise?

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

Career Growth

Asking for a raise is a scary event for many employees. Today Steve gives you a few things to think about and some advice on how to go about changing your job.

Contained Availability Groups in SQL Server 2022

by Deepam Ghosh

SQLServerCentral

SQL Server 2022 introduced a new feature called Contained Availability Groups. It allows the Database Administrators to effectively manage the Server Level objects, such as Logins, SQL Agent jobs, etc. in an HA environment. In today's article, we will learn about this new feature of SQL Server. The Challenge of Managing Server Objects in Availability […]

13 Things I wish I knew about Power Query (when I first started)

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Power Query

When I first started with Power Query, it was in Excel, through the Power Pivot feature. I was amazed at how I could transform data with just a few clicks and quickly create PivotTables. Then, when Power Query appeared in Power BI, I began working with larger data sources and more complex projects.

Building a Database Dashboard with SSRS

by Nisarg Upadhyay

SQLServerCentral

Learn how to create a dynamic database dashboard that tracks key metrics using SQL Server Reporting Services. From setting up to deploying your report.

The Next Great Thing

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

Career Growth

Is AI going to kill off a lot of data professional jobs? Steve doesn't think so, but judge for yourself.

Split strings by Regular Expressions in SQL Server 2025

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SQL Server users have been asking for native regular expression support for over two decades. There are third-party Common Language Runtime (CLR) modules that offer this functionality, but these can be complicated to install and simply aren’t possible in some environments. I want to split a string using a regular expression instead of a static string. Will that be possible in SQL Server 2025, without CLR?

Using Ollama on Windows 11 as an Alternative to Public LLMs

by dbakevlar@gmail.com

SQLServerCentral

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

In my ongoing war against shadow AI, I’ve been testing out alternatives that most everyone can use, no matter what your technical expertise. Although somewhat limited depending on your resources available, (laptop CPU/GPU, memory, etc.) If you want to try the newest open models without sending your prompts to the cloud, or you just want […]