Advice I Like: Fear and Imagination

Fear is fueled by a lack of imagination. The antidote to fear is not bravery; it looks more like imagination – from Excellent Advice for Living What a neat...

Checking Identities

Don't Forget About Financial Skills

A bit of advice from Steve to ensure you do not neglect the management of your finances for the long term.

Using Customer Docker Compose File Names

As I use containers more and more to run various things, I decided I not only wanted to set up docker compose files, I wanted to name them something...

Changing the Recovery Time

Getting More Time from AI

Today Steve wonders what you might do with extra time if the AI can give it to you.

Local LLM Models at SQL Saturday Boston 2025

I’m starting a long trip at Boston this weekend. I’ll be there Saturday speaking, two sessions I think. At least one. I’m excited for this session as I’ve had...

All the Costs of Downtime

Downtime causes a lot of problems, not all of which are financial for an organization.

How Well Does the MSSQL Extension in VSCode Work?

A short look at the MSSQL extension for VS Code, getting started with connections and running queries.

Single User SQL Server on Linux