The New Software Team
Software teams are changing with AI and this might be an exciting time for developers if they take advantage of the capabilities available.
2026-05-22
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Editorials
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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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
107 reads
We Are Eating Our Own Seed Corn
Last week I stood in front of a classroom at Washington State University and looked out at a room full of students who had done everything right. They had studied hard, were earning their degrees, built their portfolios, and showed up with genuine enthusiasm for careers in technology. They wanted to know what the industry […]
2026-05-16
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Why I Don’t Like Shared Development Databases
Today, Kendra explains why she doesn't like shared development databases.
2026-05-15 (first published: 2020-01-31)
656 reads
Writing Before Reading
We often learn to write code before we really learn to read it, which seems like a problem to Steve.
2026-05-13 (first published: 2020-05-21)
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Other IDEs
This editorial was originally published on Jun 17, 2020. It is being republished as Steve is out of town. Let us know if you've changed your SQL IDEs since then. Most of us use SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) to manage our SQL Server instances or to write database code. However, Microsoft does give us […]
2026-05-11 (first published: 2020-06-17)
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The New Wave of Security Threats
New AI tools are discovering older vulnerabilities in software, as well as new ones. Get ready for a bunch of patches to come out.
2026-05-09
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There's Too Much to Learn
Steve has thoughts about those of us struggling to keep up with technology changes.
2026-05-08
146 reads
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
130 reads
Blogs
Prime Day Recommendations
By Steve Jones
It’s Prime Day. A few of my recommendations, since I want to do some...
Fabric for Operational Reporting & SQL Endpoint Trap
With Fabric Mirroring, Microsoft is promoting a nice and appealing story for operational reporting...
Crawl, Walk, Run with Agentic Development of Power BI Assets
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems...
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Concurrency and Baseline Control: Level 5 of the Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments
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Question of the Day
Multiple Values Inserted
I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers