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ADS Copilot Experiments with XML

Posted on August 23, 2023 by way0utwest

I sent some code to a customer recently to help them decrypt some stored procedures. I sent a quick and dirty set of code, noting at the bottom that the results were in XML and needed to be extracted. The … Continue reading →

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Shift Right

Posted on August 23, 2023 by way0utwest

Earlier this year I was watching someone present on DevOps and IaaC (Infrastructure as Code). The speaker was showing how they had worked with clients to implement tests and checks that evaluated whether their systems were deployed and the code … Continue reading →

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Decrypting Stored Procedures with SQL Compare

Posted on August 21, 2023 by way0utwest

I had a client that was struggling with some encrypted stored procedures. They needed to decrypt them, which I know is a pain in the #@$%@#$@#$#@. I had to do this one. This post shows how I sent them some … Continue reading →

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A Real World Clash with AIs

Posted on August 21, 2023 by way0utwest

A group of people are protesting more cars in San Francisco by disabling self-driving cars with a cone on their hood. It is likely that the cone disables some sensors and won’t let the cars move. For truly autonomous cars, … Continue reading →

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