Things I Carry in My Travel Bag

A friend asked me for some travel tips and ideas recently. One of their questions was on what types of things do I actually carry on the road, both...

Changing the Default

Constitutional AI

There is a company trying to build AI systems in a new way. Steve isn't sure what this means or if it's a good idea. Read his thoughts today.

Assigning a Default Schema to a New User–#SQLNewBlogger

I had to test something for a customer, and as a part of this there as a need to have a different default schema for a user. Since this...

We're Not Faster with AI

At Redgate Software, we've been trialing Copilot from GitHub with our developers. I managed to get access for this experiment and have tried a few things, though I'm not sure I've found it very useful. I'll continue to work with Copilot, but for now, I just don't find Copilot AI helping me with the types […]

What will be inserted?

A New Word: Fitzcarraldo

fitzcaraldo – n. a random image that becomes lodged deep in your brain – maybe washed there by a dream, or smuggled inside a book, or planted during a...

Creating a Speaking Failures Support Group

Earlier this week the emails went out to speakers who submitted to the PASS Data Community Summit 2023 conference. These were acceptances and rejections, letting people know the results...

Large PRs are Bad

Reviewing Pull Requests (PR) is something that developers should take seriously, but Steve doesn't think this always happens.

The Self Referencing CTE