Limit the Blast Radius
AI can go off the rails, as we see in a recent story about an LLM deleting a production database.
2026-05-20
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The Dangers of Dependencies
Single points of failure are bad, but what if an employee's action is the single point of failure for access to services? That would be a bad day for any organization.
2026-05-06
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2026-04-29
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2026-04-24
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Introducing the Relational Embedding Retrieval Pattern: Storing and Querying Vector Embeddings in SQL Server
Learn about using SQL Server to support AI-enhanced search queries with the Relational Embedding Retrieval Pattern (RERP).
2026-04-24
1,740 reads
Who is Irresponsible?
It can be irresponsible to use AI, but is it in many cases? Steve has a few thoughts.
2026-04-15
69 reads
Barely Reviewed Code
Code reviews can be challenging in many places, and with AI, could be even more of an issue in the future.
2026-04-08
113 reads
This Week's AI Trust Problem Became Everyone’s Problem
There’s a saying in security circles: the weakest link isn’t the lock on the front door but the spare key under the mat. This past week gave us two vivid, simultaneous demonstrations of that principle, and if you’re building anything in the AI space right now, both deserve your full attention. The Mythos Leak and […]
2026-04-04
164 reads
2026-03-30
135 reads
Dancing Robot Goes Rogue
The headline says it all and Steve thinks this could be a problem in the digital world as well.
2026-03-28
69 reads
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T-SQL Tuesday #198 Roundup: How Do You Detect Data Changes?
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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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