One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn Docs) is that I can fix things I find wrong. For years we had downloaded Books Online from installs, then we have BOL on a site, but those were mostly updated when a new release came.Now we have MS Learn, and a regularly changing set of docs. If you haven’t taken advantage of these docs for SQL Server, you should. Bookmark: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/?view=sql-server-ver17&redirectedfrom=MSDNI help change those. It’s part of my contribution as a Microsoft MVP, but it’s also something that I enjoy because it makes my life…
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IT outages cost companies over $14,000 per minute. IBM Research’s Project ALICE uses multiple AI agents to help engineers find bugs faster and restore systems. Software bugs are expensive. When a critical system goes down, every minute of downtime costs revenue, frustrates customers, and strains engineering teams scrambling to find the problem. The challenge isn’t […]
Terms of Contract Contract Type: Full-time contractor (30-40 hours per week). Initial 3 month contract. Location: Fully remote within the U.S. or Canada About the Role We are seeking a Solutions Architect to help translate business needs into actionable, scalable software solutions across multiple ongoing projects. This role blends technical problem-solving, client communication, and requirements documentation to ensure clarity from concept through delivery. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in both technical and client-facing environments, enjoys writing detailed technical requirements, and has a proven ability to help manage development teams. The ideal candidate will be able to balance…
Today, the Linux Foundation launched the Agentic AI Foundation with three founding projects: Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose agent framework, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md standard. The foundation brings together the companies building the infrastructure layer for agents: Anthropic, Block, OpenAI, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare, and Bloomberg, alongside key tooling and platform companies. Docker is joining as a Gold member. From Open Source to Production The timing reflects how quickly the space has matured. A year ago, MCP launched as an open source project from Anthropic, solving a specific problem: how AI systems connect to tools and data. It’s now…
It has been a while since my last T-SQL Tuesday blog. When I saw Mike Walsh’s topic for T-SQL Tuesday #193, I was intrigued and inspired – “Notes to yourself from the past and the future.” It has been a year and a half since I went on full time disability due to ALS. I worked for as long as I was able contribute well. It was a sad but necessary reality. This very reality feeds into my notes.Note to my past self, ten years agoDon’t allow others to influence you away from your passion for data excellence and leadership.…
The last T-SQL Tuesday of the year is hosted by my good friend Mike Walsh. Mike’s call for us is to end the year on a poignant note – write a note each to your past me and future me, on things you wish you knew, or learning plans or anything you’d like to say.My notes are as below –Note to My Past Self (10 Years Ago)I wish you had realized that admiring others shouldn’t make you lose sight of your own worth and potential.I wish you knew that real friendships take time to grow.I wish you understood that if…
This month Mike Walsh hosts T-SQL Tuesday. It’s been quite some time since he hosted (back at #4), but he answered my call for hosts and I appreciate that. He has a really good end of year invitation that asks us to look to the past and the future.I’m trying to keep T-SQL Tuesday alive, but I’ve been struggling for hosts. I need more of you to host, and more people to blog.Blogging is incredible for your career. Take some time to get started, and if you do nothing but respond to these monthly blog parties, you’ll look better than…
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SSH or Secure Shell in simple terms is a way by which a person can remotely access another user on other system but only in command line i.e. non-GUI mode. In more technical terms, when we ssh on to other user on some other system and run commands on that machine, it actually creates a pseudo-terminal and attaches it to the login shell of the user logged in. When we log out of the session or the session times out after being idle for quite some time, the SIGHUP signal is send to the pseudo-terminal and all the jobs that…
My very limited time on X has already shown that posts ranked by number of expression is highly non-linear. Maybe Zipf or Pareto distributed? The first plot shows each post sorted by impressions (rank 1 = most impressions). You’ll see a steep drop from the top few posts, then a long tail of low-impression posts.♥️ Info: Are you AI curious but you still have to create real impactful projects? Join our official AI builder club on Skool (only $5): SHIP! – One Project Per MonthThe point is: post more stuff most posts will fail or get ~zero impressions some posts…