Monthly Archives: July 2017

Who’s Smarter? Humans or AI Systems?

Posted on July 27, 2017 by way0utwest

I used to watch science fiction movies and imagine we’d have these incredible machines that could interact with humans in amazing ways. I always believed more in the helpful and useful AI in Star Wars than the dangerous systems of movies like The … Continue reading →

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Azure Labs–Minor Cluster Issues for SQL Server Setup

Posted on July 27, 2017 by way0utwest

During the process of building an Azure lab, I ran into a place where my cluster was not completely validated. I think this happened when a node failed and was re-provisioned, but in any case, when I ran SQL Server … Continue reading →

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DevOps–Fixing Poorly Named Constraints

Posted on July 26, 2017 by way0utwest

I was building some code the other day and kept getting problems in my deployment for a change. The deployment was having issues, and this came down to this statement. ALTER TABLE EventLogger DROP CONSTRAINT [PK__EventLog__5E548648B043C0BC] The problem was that … Continue reading →

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SSoL: Where are my data and log files?

Posted on July 25, 2017 by way0utwest

I don’t think most of us need to know Linux, but if you end up managing a system, it’s good to have a little idea of how to get around. This is a short series of posts as I remember … Continue reading →

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