Where I work, I use CoPilot hosted within our corporate Office365 subscription, which is sandboxed by the organization's identity permissions and data governance controls.

I can see why corporate policy would...

I don't have an X (formerly known as Twitter) account, so I can't login to read the replies.

However, it seems to me like the founder himself is maybe trolling:

".. No...

Speaking of robots going rogue.

Can it script server/database settings and permissions too?

Back in 2006, when times were simpler, all I needed was SSMS, MSDN, and occasionally Google.

Today, since there are orders of magnitude more complexity to a database developer or DBA's...

It sounds like what we're discussing here is not Excel as a database but rather as a data interchange format that can be easily copied to a network folder or...

There are more complete and robust JSON database solutions, like Azure CosmosDB or MongoDB. If what the application needs to do is query rows for a specific customer or product...

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I've only briefly supported  a setup that used Secondary AGs for reads for reporting. I've read and heard about some of the difficulties with doing so. Have you...

I believe this new wave of vibe coding freshmen just causes employers to appreciate us old hats even more.

AOG is great, because having all read-only queries routed to one or more secondary nodes will take the load off the primary where the ETL load takes place. However, there...

Steve,

I've gone back and re-read this editorial again, and I agree with the initial point about how executive management choosing to replace employees with AI can be seen as selfish,...

There is nothing "selfish" about learning new skills to enhance your job performance and avoid a layoff, especially when employers are  actively engaged in layoffs and explicitly signaling that they...

Hi Chandan,

Whatever is going on, it's transient, meaning it works for a couple of weeks, and then starts failing until another reboot.

Explain more about "port/socket exhaustion", like what I can...

One of my past projects was creating a daily scheduled ETL job that downloads Azure billing data to a SQL Server data mart, and then someone on the DevOps team...

My understanding is that, if you sign out of the Postman desktop app, you can make requests to local web services without an internet connection, but some of the features...