Redmondmag.com

Microsoft Expands Azure Database Cost-Saving Options with New Cross-Service Savings Plans

Microsoft’s new Azure database savings plans promise more flexible, cross-service cost reductions than traditional reservations, giving IT teams another lever to manage rising cloud database spend ...
IEEE

AES-SQL: Text-to-SQL Based on Adaptive Prompting and Intelligent Example Selection

Abstract: Large Language Models have greatly enhanced the Text-to-SQL task. In this paper, we propose AES-SQL, an LLM-based approach based on few-shot Learning. We adjust the structure of the adaptive ...
IEEE

A View-Oriented Skeleton Generation Method for Improving Multi-Table Text-to-SQL Translation Accuracy

Abstract: Recently, research on natural language to structured query (Text-to-SQL) has advanced rapidly, aiming to enable models to automatically translate natural language queries into executable SQL ...
ABC7 San Francisco

Mountain View suspends license plate readers; agencies accessed Flock camera data without consent

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (KGO) -- The city of Mountain View is shutting down their license plate reader system, for now. City officials say an audit discovered that for several months in 2024 - multiple ...
Ars Technica

Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...
Investopedia

Understanding Depreciation: Methods and Examples for Businesses

Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, economics, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) and has ...