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Local LLM Models at SQL Saturday Boston 2025

Posted on September 23, 2025 by way0utwest

I’m starting a long trip at Boston this weekend. I’ll be there Saturday speaking, two sessions I think. At least one. I’m excited for this session as I’ve had a good time playing with LLMs and hope I can make … Continue reading →

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All the Costs of Downtime

Posted on September 22, 2025 by way0utwest

I studied economics in university, which isn’t that close to database work, though I did have to work through linear regression problems by hand. I always enjoyed mathematics, so this wasn’t a hardship. Until I purchased a PC that was … Continue reading →

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Monday Monitor Tips: The Jobs Report

Posted on September 22, 2025 by way0utwest

A customer wanted a report they could email to their boss about jobs, something that showed failures. This isn’t hard to get in Redgate Monitor, though it is manual (for now). Here’s how to do this. This is part of … Continue reading →

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Remembering Phil Factor

Posted on September 19, 2025 by way0utwest

One of the most prolific and popular authors at Simple Talk has been Phil Factor. He wrote many pieces on all aspects of database work and has probably written more articles on the Redgate Product Learning site than anyone else. … Continue reading →

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