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Webinar: The Cloud, the Future, and Bob Ward at the Summit

Posted on September 12, 2023 by way0utwest

I’m doing a webinar next week with Bob Ward, a principal architect for Microsoft working on Azure and SQL Server. I’ve had the chance to work with Bob quite a few times over the years, and I’m honored that I … Continue reading →

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Finding Analogies with AI

Posted on August 31, 2023 by way0utwest

I saw this article on using AI to help that included a few prompts. I decided to try one. This is part of a series of experiments with the ChatGPT and other AI systems. Lots of Copilot lately. The Prompt … Continue reading →

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Cloud First Software

Posted on November 30, 2022 by way0utwest

Watching the evolution of SQL Server and the Azure SQL Database (ASD) variant has been interesting across the last decade. For a long time, ASD felt crippled compared to the on-premises product. The last few years, however, it seems that … Continue reading →

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Custom SQL Server on RDS

Posted on September 21, 2022 by way0utwest

One of the challenges in moving to the cloud is achieving a similar level of performance to what you would get with dedicated hardware on-premises. The cloud is someone else’s computer, and you are limited to the choices that the … Continue reading →

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