Chris Webb's BI Blog

Power BI, Parallelism And Dependencies Between SQL Queries In DirectQuery Mode

As I described here, Power BI can send SQL queries in parallel in DirectQuery mode and you can see from the Timeline column there is some parallelism happening here – the last two SQL queries ...

Why LLMs are plateauing – and what that means for software security

AI coding assistants and agentic workflows represent the future of software development and will continue to evolve at a rapid pace. But while LLMs have become adept at generating functionally correct ...
GitHub

Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification

This document contains notes and study material for the SnowPro Core Certification course available on Udemy. The official Snowflake documentation is available at Snowflake Docs. These notes were ...
Hacker

How to Create Purchase Order Lines in Oracle R12 (with PL/SQL Examples)

Vinish Kapoor is an Oracle ACE Pro, software developer, and founder of Vinish.dev, known for his expertise in Oracle. Vinish Kapoor is an Oracle ACE Pro, software developer, and founder of Vinish.dev, ...
marktechpost

Google AI Introduces Gemma 3 270M: A Compact Model for Hyper-Efficient, Task-Specific Fine-Tuning

Unlike large-scale models aimed at general-purpose comprehension, Gemma 3 270M is crafted for targeted use cases where efficiency outweighs sheer power. This is crucial for scenarios like on-device AI ...
IEEE

Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Text-to-SQL

Abstract: In recent years, the integration of natural language processing (NLP) with database querying has led to the emergence of Text-to-SQL systems, which enable nontechnical users to interact with ...
Hacker

How Bias Amplifies Across AI Generations

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VentureBeat

Fine-tuning vs. in-context learning: New research guides better LLM customization for real-world tasks

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Two popular approaches for customizing ...
GitHub

PL/SQL Connector Builder Examples

These examples demonstrates all data types and PL/SQL Connector Builders used by PL/SQL Enterprise Workbench. All examples contain a normal executable main Java program and a JUnit test case. These ...
Redmond Magazine

Performance Tuning SQL Server Using Wait Statistics

Thomas LaRock: "Without a basic understanding of wait events and how the occur, you will waste a lot of time trying and guessing at how to improve the performance of a query." Optimizing SQL Server ...
unite

The Damage From Fine-Tuning an AI Model Can Easily Be Recovered, Research Finds

New research from the US indicates that fine-tuning an AI foundation model on your own data does not need to reduce or impair the functionality of the original model – and that a relatively simple fix ...