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AI and SQL
Pinal Dave (@pinaldave), who might always exist in my mind as the person who took me to a KFC in Bengaluru, asks us about how
Hekaton – the bad and the good, and a misconception
The SQL Server platform is a robust system, designed to handle data in a relational system through the “ACID” properties of transactions. That is, to
My last ticket
There are a bunch of different things I do for clients, so it’s a bit strange to try to think what to write about in
Kelly Broekstra, MVP
It’s not hard to see why Kelly has been recognised as a Microsoft Most Valued Professional, as she did last week. I think everyone who
Responding to cancelled projects
This month (welcome to 2024, by the way) Reitse Eskens (@2meterDBA) asks us about our failures. Our abandoned projects. More specifically, what we’ve learned from
A time for gratitude
First a quick disclaimer. The timing of this is because saying thank is the theme for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by Kay Sauter. But
