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Reducing Cloud Cost

Posted on October 29, 2025 by way0utwest

Cloud costs are high and growing. Some orgs think they’re out of control and are trying to limit spend. Some orgs are looking to leave the cloud. A lot of IT spend over the years has been seen as a … Continue reading →

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A Small LLM Fail

Posted on October 29, 2025 by way0utwest

Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This one surprised me. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. Looking for Known Data with Copilot One of the things I wanted … Continue reading →

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T-SQL Tuesday #191 Round Up

Posted on October 28, 2025 by way0utwest

I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a few entries. Here’s a look at the blogs people published. First as always, Rob Farley writes about the complexity of string parsing, using TVFs. He also … Continue reading →

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DevOps is DevOps

Posted on October 27, 2025 by way0utwest

DevOps can mean a lot of things, but I find in practice that this results in a team using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment/Delivery using automation to check and evaluate your software in some way. This should result in quicker … Continue reading →

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