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Growing Artificial Intelligence
This editorial was originally published on Jul 4, 2016. With Steve on holiday, this is an interesting look back almost a decade into the past at AI technology. There’s a fascinating piece over at O’Reilly that looks at what we … Continue reading
Refactoring SQL Code
One of the things I see software developers often talking about is how they refactor code. As they touch a class, method, etc., they may take the time to refactor the code to make it cleaner, perform better, or just … Continue reading
Investing for AI
The GenAI boom is growing like crazy. From hype to disasters to successes to investment to the embedding of GenAI tech into lots of products, it seems no one gets away from AI. My wife, kids, friends, they all talk … Continue reading
Your Security Checkup
Recently I saw an article on Simple Talk, 15 Practical Tips for Securing SQL Server, and I thought that many of these are fairly simple things. Turn off unused features, disable sa, etc. These are things that a lot of … Continue reading