Can You Let Go of Determinism

As Steve uses AI more, it seems determinism isn't something you get out of many LLMs.

Lots of FKs

Doing Good at SQL Server Central

Steve talks about some of the charitable work at SQL Server Central.

Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance

The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central

It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me, just a few years after Redgate acquired SQL Server Central. I’ll let the words speak...

Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App

I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I decided recently to see if I could find a way to more easily automate things....

Creating JSON II

Engineer Lessons

Steve thinks a few lessons on being a software engineer at Google are good items for anyone to think about.

Backup to Immutable Storage

Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files

I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to determine how many people were protecting data in dev databases and how often. TDM creates...