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

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...

A Last Minute Trip to the EU

My life has some crazy travel stretches for sure. Between speaking, office visits, customer trips, I can be on the road a lot. As it is, I’ve flown across...

Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate with MCP

Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate”. I’ll drop the recording into this post once it’s published. What I...

Measuring RAG Solutions: Are We Retrieving the Right Information?

A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing as a RAG pipeline that answers them correctly. The gap between the two only shows up...