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 answer some questions here next week.