All Things Microsoft AI

Microsoft introduced a new AI service called “Azure AI Content Safety Service” at the Build conference in May 2023.  This new service will inspect for questionable content in any of the following categories. Violent content Hateful content Sexual content Self-harm content   The Content Safety service is intended to protect customers’ web sites and social media apps from receiving questionable comments or images. Content maybe text, images, audio, video, or a combination of items (i.e. multi-modal).    Users can utilize filters to tweak the severity levels.  For example, an outdoor equipment provider may allow images of knives or guns uploaded to their social media, but a school or church may like to prevent those images. Filters are set to Medium by default and can be increased.  Turning the filter settings to be less restricted or turned off requires a written application to Microsoft to ensure the customer is t...

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Problem : While doing a demo on a client’s PC that didn’t have SQL Server Developer Edition installed, I needed a quick way to demonstrate querying a SQL Server DB without installing SQL Server.   Solution : LocalDB to the rescue!  The client’s PC did have SQL Server Management Studio installed, along with SQL Server Express.  This gave me enough capability to create a sample DB and demonstrate how to query it.   To create a DB instance: Open a Command Prompt window Enter “ sqllocaldb create “Ch1Demo” “, where Ch1Demo was the specific name of my DB instance.  This short command quickly created an instance using the default version of the SQL Server DB Engine installed (see below).  This process was nearly instant (see below).     Since my username is “Sam”, The DB was created in the path C:\Users\Sam\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server Local DB\Instances\Ch1D...

User Groups Oct 11: Azure Cleveland Oct 18: Akron WIT Oct 19: Great er Lansing User Group for .Net (GLUG.Net) Oct 26: Cleveland C#   Conferences Oct 24-26: https://apiworld.co/ (Santa Clara) Oct 27: https://CyberSecuritySummit.com/Summit/Columbus23/ ( AITP23AKRON) Oct 31-Nov 2: https://apiworld.co/ (online) Nov 7-10: https://www.techbash.com/ Nov 14-16: https://www.dotnetconf.net/  

Recently David Giard (Microsoft) delivered a presentation on using ChatGPT.  Aside from answering basic questions, he demonstrated some key business and professional cases: Create a LinkedIn Profile Write a Professional email “How do I increase my followers on Twitter?” “How do I increase customer base?” “How to organize a conference or event?” Get ideas for writing, to prevent writers block   The full presentation can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noXxynTEEhg              

User Groups Sep 14: Memphis Technology User Group Sep 21: Great Lakes User Group for .Net (GLUG.Net) Sep 26: Ohio North Database Training Sep 28: Cleveland C #   Conferences Nov 7-10: https://www.techbash.com/ Nov 14-16: https://www.dotnetconf.net/  

User Groups Aug 1: Cookout for Data Professionals Aug 2: Akron Women in Tech Aug 3: Great Lakes User Group for .Net (GLUG.Net) Aug 24: Cleveland C#