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A New Word: Zverism

Posted on March 28, 2025 by way0utwest

zverism – n.  the wish that people could suspend their civility and indulge in the physical side of each other first, sniffing each other’s hair like dogs, staring unabashedly at interesting faces, reveling in a beautiful voice like a song … Continue reading →

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The Inefficiencies of Kubernetes

Posted on March 28, 2025 by way0utwest

A report of cloud Kubernetes usage shows that these resources are being under-utiliized, over-provisioned, and costing more than necessary for many organizations. From the previous year, average CPU declined from 13% to 10%, and memory is used at only around … Continue reading →

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The End of SQL Server 2019

Posted on March 26, 2025 by way0utwest

Well, not really the end. I doubt anyone running SQL Server 2019 is going to stop (or upgrade) just because mainstream support ended. Actually, I wonder how many of you know that SQL Server 2019 passed out of mainstream support … Continue reading →

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CHOOSE’ing a Beer: #SQLNewBlogger

Posted on March 26, 2025 by way0utwest

We recently published an article on CHOOSE at SQL Server Central. I thought it was a good intro, but as someone noted in the comments, how do you use CHOOSE? Do you have to hard code choices? This post shows … Continue reading →

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