Incredible! I just used PowerShell and OpenAI to import text from a PDF right into SQL Server 🚀 AI's usefulness is often debated but this is such a great use-case. I also see it being useful for automatically adding SharePoint document metadata and cleaning dirty data.
Using a new feature from OpenAI called …
Read MoreI don't know if you can tell but I'm having a ton of fun lately with AI. I prefer AI coding over manual coding because I can skip all the tedium and just communicate in my first language. Advanced things too, in languages I don't know well like TypeScript.
I remember seeing a YouTube headline about a guy who built a …
Read MoreSince I can't find it anywhere else on the web, here's how you detect ARM64 xplat.
1# Determine OS and Architecture 2$osPlatform = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation]::OSDescription 3$architecture = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation]::OSArchitecture 4 5# Adjust the platform and …
Read MoreLast week, I had such a blast at PSConf.eu in gorgeous Antwerp, Belgium. It was my first in-person conference in FIVE YEARS! Literally, the last time I was at a conference was at Data Grillen in June 2019. There, I professed that I'd be taking a break from speaking. Little did I know :grimace:
Fast-forward five very …
Read Morefinetuna, the PowerShell module for fine-tuning OpenAI models, has been updated to version 2.0. This release now depends on PSOpenAI, supports Azure OpenAI services, and provides a demo notebook along with some sample data.
If you're new to finetuna, it makes OpenAI model fine-tuning in PowerShell simpler. It does file …
Read MoreBrowsing the internet, with all the EU cookie consents, has made the entire internet unusable.
As a dedicated Chrome user, it didn't really occur to me give other browsers serious consideration. I only recently switched to Safari on the iPhone because it offered minimal blocking via a Safari extension in the app store. …
Read MoreMe and my BFF, Brandon, have been writing a new book it's available today in the Manning Early Access Program! This means you can get a copy of the book as we're writing it. We're a little less than halfway through.
We've both had a lot of success using Generative AI, specifically ChatGPT Plus and Azure OpenAI …
Read MoreI've been blown away by ChatGPT's vision features and have already used it for a ton of stuff, including:
- Taking a picture of my food and asking for the recipe
- Pasting in my friend's screenshot of her speaking in Norwegian and getting a translation
- Taking a photo of some French rubbing alcohol and asking if it's the …
Read MoreTLDR: This error is expected and the change is legitimate. To update, switch to
Install-Module
, then slap on the-SkipPublisherCheck
and-Force
parameters and continue your update.1Install-Module dbatools -Force -SkipPublisherCheck
I've always been very proud that dbatools is Code Signed like a "real" …
Read MoreIf you're wondering about the uptick in SQL Server-related posts, I recently changed jobs and went back to being a SQL Server DBA. For a few years there, I switched to security engineering; I figured I'd try something new and welcomed no longer being an admin. It was nice enough and I got to do a ton of PowerShell, but …
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