Liability for AI Errors
Who is liable for mistakes made when listening to AI tooling? In at least one case, Steve isn't sure.
2026-06-13
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AI LLM Assistance
SSMS Copilot is Messing With Your AI Prompts
You might notice that the advice you get from Copilot in SSMS isn’t very good, but it isn’t necessarily AI in general. Part of the problem is something specific about SSMS Copilot and the way it prompts LLMs, and I wish I could tell you exactly what it is, but I can’t because I don’t have access to how SSMS is changing your prompts.
2026-06-10
Vibe coding and databases: the hidden risks of AI-generated database code
Explore how Andrej Karpathy’s “vibe coding” trend reached databases. Uncover risks, real incidents, and 5 critical failure patterns
2026-06-01
Stop Prompting Your AI Agent. Give It a Playbook.
Learn about how you can better prompt your AI Assistant in solving problems and producing code.
2026-05-25
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What Can AI Really Do?
Steve asks you what you think AI can do for you today, with a few suggestions of what he sees.
2026-05-18
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When, and when not, to use LLMs in your data pipeline
LLMs should be used in data pipelines for unstructured text, semantic search, and natural language queries – but avoided for deterministic, high-volume, or regulated tasks. Drawing on my real-world experience building large-scale ML systems, in this guide I’ll explain exactly where LLMs belong in your data pipeline and, just as importantly, where they don’t.
2026-05-15
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Displaying Money
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Displaying Money
I want to get the currency sign displayed with my amount stored in a money type. Does this work?
DECLARE @Amount MONEY; SET @Amount = '?1500'; SELECT CAST( @Amount AS VARCHAR(30)) AS EurosSee possible answers