A New Word: Foilsick

foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to someone – allowing them too clear a view of your pettiness, your anger, your cowardice,...

Prompt AI helping with Auditing

I had a conversation with a customer asking this question: how can I tell who called a stored procedure so I can audit the action? I decided to see...

SQL Server Ghosts

The Selfish Case for Learning AI

Steve has a good reason to spend time working with and learning about AI technology.

A Small LLM Fail

Another test with Copilot in SSMS (v22 P3) that didn’t go so well. This one surprised me. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. Looking...

Reducing Cloud Cost

Cloud costs are high and growing. Some orgs think they're out of control and are trying to limit spend. Some orgs are looking to leave the cloud. A lot of IT spend over the years has been seen as a cost center, with many executives trying to limit the growth or spend, even while they […]

Slip Streaming Installs

T-SQL Tuesday #191 Round Up

I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a few entries. Here’s a look at the blogs people published. First as always, Rob Farley...

DevOps is DevOps

DevOps includes a lot of practices, but no matter which technology that you use, the ideas are the same.

SQL Clone at Scale with Striped Backups

I had a customer recently reach out to ask if SQL Clone would work with 20 backup files. I decided to test this. This is part of a series...