Changes, Happiness, and a Few Tears

Change is unavoidable and always affects us. We can be both happy and sad about it as we move forward. A tribute today to Annabel, who retired from Redgate Software this week.

Detecting Characters

Follow Your Hunch

One of the positives of AI is that you can try things on which you might not otherwise have time to experiment.

AI Experiments: Parsing Payment Memos

As part of my running the SQL Saturday charitable foundation, I get sponsorship money from vendors. Primarily Microsoft and AMD, but I hope to change that in the future....

Displaying Money

The Slow Growing Problems

Not every problem is going to fire off an alert, but it still might be something that you want to track.

Liability for AI Errors

Who is liable for mistakes made when listening to AI tooling? In at least one case, Steve isn't sure.

Running SQLCMD II

The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks

We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation for me (as an American) is how well most of the company in the UK...

The Degradation of the Turing Test

Are computers getting smart enough to pass the Turing test or are humans getting worse at representing themselves as intelligent?