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 ...

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Production-Ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI assistants to fully interact with console applications, monitor output, detect errors, and automate terminal workflows - similar to ...

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Empowering large language models (LLMs) to fluidly interact with dynamic, real-world environments is a new frontier for AI engineering. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification offers a ...

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Hundreds of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers used to link LLMs to third-party services, data sources, and tools include default configurations that could expose users to unauthorized OS command ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

Long before Linux was introduced, I worked as a Unix system administrator. In those days, I downloaded the source code, unpacked the tarball archive it arrived in, compiled it, and installed it ...