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PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI

Posted on February 3, 2026 by way0utwest

I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started to build this in PowerPoint. I decided to switch to Claude and ended up with an interactive one-page web app. This post looks at how I … Continue reading →

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25 Years of SQL Server Central

Posted on February 2, 2026 by way0utwest

The oldest article we have on the site is Tame Those Strings! Part 4 – Numeric Conversions, by me. It’s dated 2001-04-18, though I think that’s a date we picked when we converted all the content from one database to … Continue reading →

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Monday Monitor Tips: SQL Auditing Preview

Posted on February 2, 2026 by way0utwest

One of the features we advocates have been advocating for is a better way to track security changes in your SQL Server instances. The first slice of this work is in preview (as of 12 Jan 2026) and this post … Continue reading →

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There Are a Lot of Databases

Posted on January 30, 2026 by way0utwest

I was reading Andy Pavlo’s end-of-year review of the database world. He’s done this for a number of years, and there are links to previous recaps in the piece. He is an associate computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, … Continue reading →

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