SQL Server 2025, an RTX 5090, and the slow death of “Will the hon. Gentleman give way?”
Two Graphics Cards and 1.7 Million Speeches to Prove a Negative
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Two Graphics Cards and 1.7 Million Speeches to Prove a Negative
A spelling corrector in pure T-SQL, and what Feynman’s postulate had to do with it
Within the last few days Richard Feynman’s 80 year old quantum postulate has now been validated. It has been directly measured in an experiment for the first time.
When you have spent 30 years designing relational databases and enforcing strict transactional integrity, there is something deeply satisfying about completely abusing the SQL engine to do exactly what it was never designed for.
No Python, no CLR, no web services — just tables, joins and a training loop in Transact-SQL, trained on the SQL you find on the internet.