This month’s T-SQL Tuesday blog party is hosted by Deborah Melkin – Data Platform MVP, WIT co-lead and WITspiration founder.Deb’s invitation is to blog about mentoring and sponsorship.What does mentoring and sponsorship mean to you? What value do you see in mentoring and sponsoring?I’ve had many mentors through my tech journey. To me, mentors are people who care about helping you get to where you want to be and offering constructive guidance in that regard. Some people have one person like that whom they look up to. I’ve usually had several at a time. Typically, I talk to someone for tech…
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There are numerous definitions of coding ranging from developing entire applications in Java or C++ to scripting in PowerShell to editing YAML configuration files. But people rarely believe that any of these is an essential skill for the operations teams. Panelists at the recent Cloud Field Day event anticipated during the Delegate Roundtable conversation that soon artificial intelligence (AI) would take over coding, making the primary skill, the ability to articulate requirements to AI. They acquired their understanding by working with physical hardware before virtualization, followed by writing infrastructure automation. However, they do not think newer or future IT professionals will…
Photo by Riccardo Annandale on UnsplashThank you to Deborah Melkin for hosting TSQL Tuesday this month! I’ve always considered mentoring and sponsorship very structured. Now, I wonder if they’re also small things we do for one another. In the past, I thought mentoring was one-on-one meetings with another person to deep dive into our innermost desires or sponsorship with some large donation to a conference. It would be something very visible or visceral. But does it have to be so deep, intensive, or expensive though? It’s all-or-nothing for me to think it has to be huge or nothing at all.I…
An analysis of public GitHub repositories published today finds 22.8 million hardcoded secrets, representing a 25% increase since a similar study was done a year ago.Conducted by GitGuardian, the analysis also discovered well over a third (35%) of all private repositories contained at least one plaintext secret that could easily be discovered.More troubling still, 70% of the secrets that GitGuardian discovered in 2022 still remain active three years later, according to the report.In total, 4.6% of all public repositories contained a secret, 58% of all detected secrets were generic, including hardcoded passwords embedded in source code, database connection strings, custom…
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday blog party is hosted by Deborah Melkin, and it’s a good one that asks us where we are making the world better. The topic is mentorship and sponsorship, which is great. We all ought to pay it forward or pay it back, depending on how lucky we are. I believe strongly in this and am glad to see the topic posted.I still manage the T-SQL Tuesday list, and I’m always looking for hosts. I have a few scheduled for 2025, but I can use more. If you’re interested in hosting, hit me up at one of…
If you’re an experienced SQL user eager to sharpen your expertise with real-world challenges, the March SQL Practice is the perfect opportunity. This month’s challenge is designed for advanced learners comfortable working with concepts like CASE WHEN, GROUP BY, aggregate functions, and common table expressions (CTEs). It’s a great way to put your SQL knowledge to the test while solving practical business problems.What Are Monthly SQL Practices?If you’re new to these challenges, here’s how they work: Monthly SQL Practices are short, themed exercises that allow you to practice SQL in a fun and engaging way. They alternate between basic and…
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience.Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers.Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so when one DevOps professional takes on a new role, it tends to create opportunities for others.The five job postings shared this week are selected based on the company looking to hire, the vertical industry segment and naturally, the pay…
Synopsys has unveiled a groundbreaking enhancement to its virtual prototyping suite that promises to transform how developers build software-defined products. The newly announced Virtualizer Native Execution on Arm hardware leverages the commonality between server and edge device architectures to accelerate development cycles and time to market.Bridging the Gap Between Cloud and EdgeAs software increasingly defines product functionality in automotive systems, high-performance computing (HPC), and internet of things (IoT) devices, development teams face mounting pressure to deliver complex solutions faster. Announced on March 10, Synopsys’ innovation addresses this challenge by enabling software workloads to execute natively on Arm servers, eliminating translation…
https://sqlsaturday.com/2025-03-08-sqlsaturday1102/#scheduleSQL Saturday Atlanta BI is one of my favorite SQL Saturdays of the year. This year was especially sweet to see a lot of the SML (Saturday Morning Learning) crew plus even got to see a couple of first-time presenters! Pretty amazing to see this community continue to grow and shape more careers. Thank you to everyone who attended my session It was super fun to present to a post-lunch full room! If you weren’t able to attend (there were a ton of amazing sessions at the same time!), or want to refer back to the code we covered, please…
This article will teach you how to create a Spring Boot application that implements several AI scenarios using Spring AI and the Ollama tool. Ollama is an open-source tool that aims to run open LLMs on our local machine. It acts like a bridge between LLM and a workstation, providing an API layer on top of them for other applications or services. With Ollama we can run almost every model we want only by pulling it from a huge library. This is the fifth part of my series of articles about Spring Boot and AI. I mentioned Ollama in the…