Strange Filtered Index Problem
What I thought was a strange filtered index problem but turned out to be a DB settings problem
Create Azure VMs with PowerShell Part 1
Azure virtual machines are created for many reasons, even just to have an environment to quickly test something out. In this article, Robert Cain demonstrates the first few steps in automating the process with PowerShell. He shows how to gather information needed and set up a resource group, storage and networking needed for the VM.
Power BI Desktop on the Mac
Power Bi is one of the neatest tools that Microsoft has built for data professionals. It allows anyone to build fantastic interactive visualizations that can help tell a story and help someone make decisions. There have been some amazing demo visualizations from Microsoft customers. I've seen a predictive maintenance visualization for airplanes, one for diabetes […]
Setting up SQL Server on Red Hat Linux in AWS - Part 1
In this post, Pinakin Patel looks at the preliminary steps you need to peform to build an instance in AWS to run SQL Server on Red Hat Linux.
Anonymisation Confusion
Steve talks about the difference between anonymisation and pseudonymisation, which can be confusing.
SQL Server Dynamic Online Catalog: Why Should You Care? Stairway to Exploring Database Metadata Level 1
In this first level, we look at the overview of what metadata is contained in each database, gain some understanding of the different types of information, and examine a few basic examples.
Kafka Integration with HDInsight
Microsoft HDInsight is the cloud service that deploys and provisions Hadoop clusters on the Azure cloud. It's a completely managed, open source analytics service to support enterprise needs and supports a wide variety of scenarios with the help of open source frameworks like Hadoop, Storm, Spark, R Server and Hive.
Reading Through the Logs
The problems at TSB Bank in the UK have Steve worried about his own records.
Blogs
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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