Earlier this week, I recorded a talk called “AI: The Good, Bad, and the Future.” I talked about some of the good things that have happened with AI and some of the Bad. But what I really wanted to focus on was the future. I think many of us have heard the two letters AI […]
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Managing incidents as a DBA /DB manager and some of the key things you should be doing.
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This Editorial is coming to you during an exciting birthday for the United States. If you are in the US, you are most likely celebrating the 4th of July. This is the 250th anniversary for the US, quite a milestone. I hope that all my US friends are celebrating safely and responsibly. While it is […]
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Who is liable for mistakes made when listening to AI tooling? In at least one case, Steve isn't sure.
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A Thank You message to the original founds of the PostgreSQL project and members of the community that have been working so hard for 30 years.
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This editorial discusses how to help others take their first step into contributing to the community
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The headline says it all and Steve thinks this could be a problem in the digital world as well.
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I run this code on SQL Server 2022.
CREATE TABLE Drink
(
drinkid INT NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT DrinkPK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
drinkname VARCHAR(20),
rating NUMERIC(2, 1)
)
GO
INSERT INTO Drink
(
drinkid,
drinkname,
rating
)
VALUES
(1, 'Margarita', 4.5),
(2, 'Mojito', 4.3),
(3, 'Old Fashioned', 4.7),
(4, 'Martini', 4.4),
(5, 'Cosmopolitan', 4.2)
GO
ALTER INDEX drinkpk ON dbo.drink DISABLE
GO
SELECT * FROM dbo.Drink
GO
What is the result? See possible answers