Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas

“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent Advice for Living Whenever we read about the success of someone or something, we often...

T-SQL Tuesday #202: The Two Outages I Won't Ever Forget

My T-SQL Tuesday #202 entry for Marlon Ribunal's invitation on memorable SQL Server outages. Two nights I still remember minute by minute, and what I do differently because of...

Using the Data API Builder–VS Live San Diego Resources

Thanks for attending my sessions. Resources below: Slides: Using Data API Builder GitHub repo:  https://github.com/way0utwest/DAB-Experiments

What Does It Mean to Make Data AI-Ready?

Making Data AI-Ready, Part 1 (This is the first article in a three-part series on making data AI-ready. Part 1 explains what AI-ready data actually means, Part 2 looks...

Differences Between xp_readerrolog and sp_readerrorlog: #SQLNewBlogger

I was creating a question on sp_readerrorlog and realized that this procedure is different from the one it wraps: xp_readerrorlog. This post digs into a few differences. Another post...

Exploring DiskANN: Part 2: PQ, SSDs, caching and beam search

How I used AI for this postChatGPT to generate images based on info specifically provided by me,including examples.Grammarly to catch grammar and sentence construction errors. In Part 1, we...

Running a Local LLM On Your Laptop Resources

Thanks to everyone that attended my sessions at VS Live San Diego yesterday. It was a fun session and I’m glad a few people came up to ask questions....

T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours

It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start writing. I might have written about this before, but it’s a story that sticks with...

Why sys.fn_dblog Is Undocumented And Why It's Still There

Why sys.fn_dblog Is Undocumented And Why It's Still There

Why sys.fn_dblog Is Still Undocumented — And Still There

This article is about why things are the way...

T-SQL Tuesday #202 SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget: A Roundup

When I put together the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #202, I wasn't sure what kind of stories would come out of it.
The topic was simple:
That one SQL Server outage...