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  • 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


  • 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. Slides are here: Running a Local LLM Other resources: SQL Server 2025 Quick Start – https://github.com/nocentino/ollama-sql-faststart Jeff Foster – Fine Tuning a Small Language Model with Python Setting up Ollama – https://voiceofthedba.com/2025/01/20/setting-up-a-local-llm/ Local GUI (Note, change to OpenWebUI container) – https://voiceofthedba.com/2025/01/27/the-local-ollama-gui/ I’ll write a bit more and I’ll…


  • Editorial Republish: Evaluating a DBA (or AI)

    How do you evaluate a DBA? Can you pick someone that will do a good job? History says that most of us don’t do a great job in picking candidates to offer a job. I wrote Evaluating a DBA in 2021 and it’s being republished as I’m at VS Live today. Does it still make sense? Have we learned anything? Let me know, and by the way, this applies to “hiring” (using) an AI.


  • Differences Between xp_readerrolog and sp_readerrorlog: #SQLNewBlogger

    I was creating a question on sp_readerrorlog and realized that this procedure is different from the one it wraps: xp_readerrorlog. This post digs into a few differences. Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. The New System Stored Procedure For most of my SQL Server career, it’s been a habit to use xp_readerrorlog to query the log. This was code I learned a…


  • Editorial Republish: An Azure Outage

    I had to run out of town, as noted in my other post. So you get to read An Azure Outage. Are things better? The cloud more reliable? You happy?


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