Who is Irresponsible?
It can be irresponsible to use AI, but is it in many cases? Steve has a few thoughts.
2026-04-15
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Editorials
2026-04-13
111 reads
Don't Panic
And bring a towel. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you have homework. You know with that lead in I'm going to talk about AI. Sorry, can't help it. It's on my mind quite a lot. It's in the news, oh, a whole lot. The majority of those stories can be summed up […]
2026-04-11
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Acting with Confidence
Acting with confidence is great, but how do you decide when there are potential impacts and concerns about your actions? Steve has a few thoughts today.
2026-04-10
76 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
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2026-04-06 (first published: 2018-05-21)
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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
171 reads
A Double Failure
A company has both a server without a password and live data in test environments. Not a good situation.
2026-04-03 (first published: 2019-05-07)
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2026-04-01
195 reads
2026-03-30
137 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...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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Concurrency and Baseline Control: Level 5 of the Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments
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Spending Time in the Office
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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