Years ago, I responded privately to my brother and friend, Buck Woody (@BuckWoodyMSFT | LinkedIn) when he shared (excellent) advice about when to shrink a SQL Server database (spoiler alert: rarely). I asked Buck, “If shrinking a SQL Server database is nearly always bad, why not remove the feature from SQL Server?” (paraphrased). Buck’s response …
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Moral AI
We hear a lot about ethical AI. It’s an important topic, and I may be splitting hairs when I apply the adjective “moral.” In this post, I will not cover what I believe to be the difference between ethical and moral. I believe either adjective covers my concern (in this post). I can hear some …
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Enterprise Data & Analytics Welcomes Shannon Lowder!
I am honored and thrilled to welcome Shannon Lowder (@shannonlowder | blog | LinkedIn) to the Enterprise Data & Analytics team! Shannon is a data engineer, data scientist, BimlHero (though not listed on the page at the time of this writing), and shepherd of the Biml Interrogator open source project. If you use Biml to generate SSIS …
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William McKnight on Data Driven
Frank and I had a great chat with William McKnight of the Data Decoded podcast and McKnight Consulting Group. It’s a great conversation. Check out our interview with William McKnight at Data Driven! :{>