Warner Chaves

Microsoft Data Platform MVP and SQL Server MCM, Warner has been recognized by his colleagues for his ability to remain calm and collected under pressure. His transparency and candor enable him to develop meaningful relationships with his clients, where he welcomes the opportunity to be challenged. Originally from Costa Rica, Warner is fluent in English and Spanish and, when he isn’t working, can be found watching movies, playing video games, and hosting board game nights at Pythian.

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Taking Microsoft Fabric From Prototype to Production

Microsoft Fabric is a powerful, unified analytics platform that promises to bring all your data into one place.

Generative AI

Introduction to LLM Benchmarks

In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI), large language models (LLMs) have become a cornerstone ...

Cloud

Essential Prerequisites for Deploying LLM Applications in Production

Yes, I know; we’ve all been bombarded with AI presentations, offerings, news, and more over the last year and a half. ...

Oracle

Driving Enterprise Innovation: Warner Chaves on Oracle-Google Cloud Collaboration

In part 1 of our blog series, we discussed how the new Oracle-Google Cloud partnership is still making waves, ...

Microsoft Azure

Fine-tuning GPT with Azure OpenAI service

In the ever-evolving landscape of AI and Natural Language Processing, OpenAI's GPT models have emerged as a powerful ...

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AI in Full Bloom: 2023 Years End Snapshot of Generative AI

After closing out 2023, one topic undoubtedly dominated the technology industry for this year: Generative AI.

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Architecting and Building Production-Grade GenAI Systems - Part 1: Architectural Matters

In recent months, it seems that everyone in the IT industry has been talking about Generative AI and Large Language ...

Microsoft Azure

Extract Insights from Documents with Azure Document Intelligence

Most organizations that I speak to have tons of documents that contain valuable information but don't have the time or ...

Microsoft SQL Server

SQL Server COMPILE Locking and Encryption Keys

Introduction The morning begins with this page: "a large number of sessions are blocked on one of your managed SQL ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Top 10 New Features of SQL Server 2019

Editor’s Note: Because our bloggers have lots of useful tips, every now and then we bring forward a popular post from ...

Microsoft Azure

Cosmos DB indexing fundamentals – SQL on the edge episode 15

As Microsoft's premier NoSQL cloud offering, Cosmos DB offers some interesting design decisions and trade-offs that are ...

Microsoft SQL Server

How to analyze SQL server stack dumps

Troubleshooting SQL server stack dumps: A practical guide As a SQL Server production DBA, at some point in time you ...

Cloud

Loading data into Azure Data Warehouse with Data Factory - SQL on the edge episode 18

Earlier this year Microsoft released the next generation of its data pipeline product Azure Data Factory. The first ...

Microsoft Azure

News and upates from Microsoft Azure, pt II

I recently joined Chris Presley for his podcast, Cloudscape , to talk about what’s happening in the world of ...

Microsoft Azure

Trying out Large Language Models with Azure OpenAI Service

Introduction Language is a cornerstone of human communication, enabling us to express thoughts, share ideas, and convey ...

Microsoft Azure

Understanding the differences between Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Fabric

In the modern era of data-driven decision-making, businesses rely heavily on robust and efficient data platforms to ...

Google Cloud

Datascape Episode 59: Google BigQuery Architecture, Cloud Migrations

Episode 59 Shownotes Welcome to another episode of the Datascape Podcast. Cloud consultant Megha Bedi joins us from ...

Database

Datascape Episode 53: Managing High-Performance IT Teams

Episode 53 Shownotes Welcome to another episode of Datascape Podcast. In today’s show, guests Shara French, Microsoft ...

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Warner Chaves

Posts by Warner Chaves

Taking Microsoft Fabric From Prototype to Production

Introduction to LLM Benchmarks

Essential Prerequisites for Deploying LLM Applications in Production

Driving Enterprise Innovation: Warner Chaves on Oracle-Google Cloud Collaboration

Fine-tuning GPT with Azure OpenAI service

AI in Full Bloom: 2023 Years End Snapshot of Generative AI

Architecting and Building Production-Grade GenAI Systems - Part 1: Architectural Matters

Extract Insights from Documents with Azure Document Intelligence

SQL Server COMPILE Locking and Encryption Keys

Top 10 New Features of SQL Server 2019

Cosmos DB indexing fundamentals – SQL on the edge episode 15

How to analyze SQL server stack dumps

Loading data into Azure Data Warehouse with Data Factory - SQL on the edge episode 18

News and upates from Microsoft Azure, pt II

Trying out Large Language Models with Azure OpenAI Service

Understanding the differences between Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Fabric

Datascape Episode 59: Google BigQuery Architecture, Cloud Migrations

Datascape Episode 53: Managing High-Performance IT Teams

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