Derek Wilson

Derek Wilson delivers tactical and strategic Business Intelligence and Enterprise Architecture solutions. His primary focus in on Microsoft SQL Server technologies and aligning business problems to technology solutions. He architects BI solutions leveraging SQL Server, SharePoint and any other technologies that help his clients achieve better data driven decisions. By leveraging the information learned while collecting requirements for BI projects, he helps align business processes to technology helping further organizations Enterprise Architecture. He is an author, trainer, blogger and has been using SQL Server since version 6.5.

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Using a Local Large Language Model (LLM): Interacting with Local LLMs Using PowerShell

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Monday Monitor Tips: Finding the Hostname for Queries

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Can AI Read Execution Plans?

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SSIS giving "Error converting data type varchar to float" error

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Hi everyone The data provider I use to get data from changed their coding...

SSIS Won't Create Log Entries

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SQL Server is terminating in response to a 'stop' request from Service error

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Dear All, In one of the server its repeatedly restarting sqlserver services and not...

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Question of the Day

Database Files on Shares I

I want to store database files on a file share for a SQL Server 2017 instance. Can I use \\fileserver\D$ as a location?

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