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Webinar tomorrow: The Role of Databases in the Era of AI

Posted on October 14, 2024 by way0utwest

I’m hosting a webinar tomorrow with Rie Merritt from Microsoft. We’ll be talking about some of the sessions that Microsoft has planned for the PASS Data Community Summit as well as a discussion of how AI is changing our world. … Continue reading →

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Serverless Gets Faster

Posted on October 12, 2024 by way0utwest

When the Azure SQL Database serverless option was introduced, I was a bit disappointed that I couldn’t get the database to pause any sooner than 1 hour. That meant I needed to ensure clients didn’t access the system for an … Continue reading →

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Everything is Code

Posted on October 11, 2024 by way0utwest

I posted a note on Twitter/X with this quote: “The content updates had not previously been treated as code because they were strictly configuration information.” This is from testimony given by Crowdstrike to a US Congressional committee in trying to … Continue reading →

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A New Word: Opia

Posted on October 11, 2024 by way0utwest

opia – n. the ambiguous intensity of eye contact The entry for this says “so much can be said in a glance, “ which I think is very true. Most of the time eye contact is amazing. I think we … Continue reading →

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