Yes, an index recommendation should be treated like a pharmaceutical add: always consult your DBA, and stop using the index when database bloating and slowness of data movement occurs.

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I don't know about AI (ie: speech to code) driven application development, but meta-data driven application development certainly is a thing. T-SQL is adept at generating code. The example below...

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Eric M Russell.

"..The longer I’m in this business, the more I think that many people with 5 years working with SQL Server usually don’t have 1 year of experience 5 times. I’m...

Storage Explorer, Data Explorer, Data Studio, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Express, Visual Studio Code, Data Tools:

Which of these are in the process of being deprecated?

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What was the nature of the SQL injection, and how did you discover it happened?

One advantage a MVP / Blogger would have in owning Books Online is that they would always be officially right.

In my opinion, it's only [unethical] if we never intended...

I was already disoriented by the new website layout and now this! Perhaps this your way of hinting to Microsoft that you'd actually like to take on the job of...

I get why regular folks in the early 20th century were eager to leap from "horse and buggy" to "horseless buggy". That was an easy sell to the general public...

If we're in a hurry, can we tell the car that it's OK to make a U-turn (if there is no oncoming traffic) or merge into the HOV lane?

Not sure if anyone is asking for this, but I'm guessing Microsoft would consider it a very low priority request.