Courses, presentations, blog posts and lab notebooks. Each folder has its own README that explains what is inside, what format it is in, and how current it is.
- Claude for Technical Consultants - solution design, troubleshooting and customer communication with Claude
- PostgreSQL for the SQL Server Database Professional - a one-day, hands-on SQL Server to PostgreSQL workshop
- Find a Mentor, Be a Mentor - building meaningful developmental relationships
- Data Literacy - using data to make intelligent decisions
- Shut the Front Door - a guide for organization security audits
- Using a Database to Find Solutions for Business Problems - the Problem/Solution database and notebooks
- AI Prompting - the prompt formats I use, plus a prompt builder page
- An Introduction to AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning (web version)
- AI-ML-DL-NLP-LLM - A Lab Notebook for Learning about AI
- AI: What to Use When - choosing among Azure AI solutions
- Designing Secure AI Projects
- Presentation Workshop
- The Team Data Science Process
- Kubernetes Application to Azure SQL DB
- Using Microsoft Azure OpenAI and SQL Server Machine Learning Services
- SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters Workshop - the product was retired in 2025; kept for reference
These links were in the original README and have not all been re-checked. (The links to the Azure Notebooks website were removed because Microsoft retired that site in January 2021.)
- Machine Learning with Azure ML Studio
- Learn AI Materials on Artificial Intelligence on IaaS++
- SQL Server R Services Workshop
- Microsoft R for Architects
- Microsoft R for the SQL Server Professional
In October 2026 the folders were regrouped. If you have an older link, find the folder below. File names inside moved folders were also changed to lower-case with hyphens (for example, 00 - Pre-Requisites.md is now 00-pre-requisites.md).
| Old folder | New location |
|---|---|
ClaudeForConsultants |
courses/claude-for-consultants |
SQLtoPostgres |
courses/sql-to-postgres |
mentoring |
courses/mentoring |
dataliteracy |
courses/data-literacy |
shut_the_front_door |
courses/shut-the-front-door |
problemtosolution |
courses/problem-to-solution |
ai_ml_dl |
presentations/ai-ml-dl |
ai_whattousewhen |
presentations/ai-what-to-use-when |
genai |
presentations/ai-prompting |
secureai |
presentations/secure-ai |
presentation_workshop |
presentations/presentation-workshop |
tdsp |
presentations/team-data-science-process |
K8s2AzureSQL |
blogs/kubernetes-to-azure-sql |
bdc |
archive/big-data-clusters |
graphics/ and system_setup/ did not move.
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