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And, yeah... that was one of the times where they said "It didn't run" when they tested it because it ran so comparatively fast.
Hah - I've had this happen...
January 2, 2025 at 10:02 pm
I think we're going to hear an awful lot about RAG - Retrieval Augmented Generation. At this stage I'm not 100% sure what it is. It appears to be...
January 2, 2025 at 9:53 pm
My biggest challenge is probably whether to pivot to Postgres or data engineering in general, in light of the increasing market capture for PG and absorbtion of DBA activities into...
August 13, 2024 at 6:03 pm
But I hadn't thought of migrating the database to the cloud. Would it be good for me to consider that, especially if I chose to use a PaaS approach,...
July 21, 2024 at 9:41 pm
At the gigs I've worked at in the last five years, I've seen an increasing number of use cases that fit MI thanks to the expanding feature set, but also...
May 28, 2024 at 9:59 pm
It's the company that release SQL Server 2019 and 2022, which I've tested as being > 23% slower than SQL Server 2017 and that's just for code that only...
May 11, 2024 at 11:24 am
I would be very curious to know how many people routinely upgrade the _underlying_ operating system.
We're cursed to have a couple of SQL instances on Windows 2016. Nothing is...
January 19, 2024 at 8:34 pm
IME, the issue with in-place upgrades is when they work, they work fine, but when they don't they tend to produce more unusual error states that can be tricky to...
January 19, 2024 at 8:22 pm
Same as you this year Steve - there are some decent reductions on security cameras so I'm extending coverage, which I was looking to do anyway.
I think it's rare these...
November 24, 2023 at 4:49 pm
I use singular - but will happily work with anything other than the naming convention of Oracle JDE tables I once had to work with - F0411, F300261 etc. Yeah,...
November 23, 2023 at 6:35 pm
For personal use at least, I feel like CPUs have been 'good enough' for some years. My desktop still has an i5-2500k from 2011, and my laptop has a i3...
January 9, 2023 at 5:23 pm
I love building PCs still - though I rarely get to do it as I don't upgrade that much these days. Especially as it's a lot safer than it was...
June 12, 2022 at 10:55 am
They seem to be on their way out. Some shops I've worked at or known through colleagues had no SSAS (but plenty of databases and a DW), and of the...
June 6, 2022 at 11:44 pm
Certification is a learning path that forces you out of your comfort zone.When I see someone with certs on their resume, I at least know they tried to get...
June 5, 2022 at 12:05 pm
At my last company we had two aspects to interviews - both some canned HR type stuff and the technical side.
For the technical part, I'd modified an existing list of...
June 5, 2022 at 11:38 am
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