If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to boost memory or I/O, you had to scale the whole instance, paying for extra CPU...
2026-01-26 (first published: 2026-01-12)
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Microsoft has released SQL Server 2025, bringing big improvements to its main database engine. This version focuses on AI features and better performance, aiming to meet the needs of...
2026-01-14 (first published: 2026-01-05)
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One of the more frustrating aspects about creating an Azure virtual machine is that if you do not place it into an availability zone at deployment time, you’ve traditionally...
2026-01-12 (first published: 2025-12-15)
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When organizations migrate workloads to Azure, the focus is usually on architecture, performance, and security. Cost management should be part of that conversation—but in practice, it’s often treated as...
2026-01-07 (first published: 2025-12-22)
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Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading today, here it is nonetheless. I wish you and your family as many blessing as...
2025-12-25
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Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be. Two well established cloud services, Cloudflare and Azure Front Door, both had simultaneous outages that caused...
2025-12-22 (first published: 2025-12-08)
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Failing to plan is planning to fail. When organizations first begin implementing Azure networking, the focus is often on the immediate requirements: connectivity, security, and performance for your databases...
2025-09-22 (first published: 2025-09-03)
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In a recent video, I took a hands-on look at the Next Gen General Purpose service tier in Azure SQL Managed Instance—and it brings some exciting advancements to the...
2025-07-04 (first published: 2025-06-19)
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AI and ChatGPT are all the rage these days. Seems like around every corner is another break-through in how we interact with data, regardless of if that data is...
2025-01-20 (first published: 2024-11-01)
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Last Updated on September 24, 2024 by John Morehouse Years ago, I saw the wave of the future and that wave was Cloud. The Cloud is not a fad...
2024-10-07 (first published: 2024-09-24)
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By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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