I've finally started looking seriously at what it's going to take for me to have an enjoyable retirement and finding that between some work-politics things and the push-push-push to AI...

Just a heads up for Steve Jones, the links to comment on the editorial from today "Would You Retire Rather Than" aren't working.

And I was all set to comment.  🙂

Honestly, because from the sound of your post you're just going to be creating Agent jobs to do the backups and using the undocumented scripts, I'd agree with ratback, use...

About 15 years ago, I was hired as the first DBA at a small medical records company.  My first project was to assess the overall environment and make suggestions/changes...

Well, it's happening to me...

I'm starting to use AI.  Granted, I used it to trim a resume down to 2 pages to fit the requirements of an online application system,...

A possible solution for you, although I'm pretty sure there's going to be issues with it, there's going to be issues with any solution to this.

Start with your idea of...

One has to wonder as well, how much of this push to use AI on the tech side stems from businesses STILL often seeing IT not as the force-multiplier it...

You're quite welcome.

What's being reported is ONLY what's available in the current database file, SQL Server doesn't count the free space on the drive as part of the database.  If you moved...

OK, I do not like our security environment sometimes...

3/4s of the way through writing a detailed reply to a post, and our stupid web-scanner forced the page to refresh and...

Looks like the spammers kept going today, not even sure how many pages of spam

Insert the "I'm in this picture (editorial) and I don't like it" meme.

While I don't have a folder of articles, I've got a few that float through my brain from...

Myself, I'm paranoid, I'll always opt for a side-by-side if it's an option.  You've got a much better "bail out" plan if something doesn't work right (especially as you're not...

• This reply was modified 1 months, 2 weeks ago by jasona.work. Reason: I was wrong about adding a WinServ2022 to a WinServ2016 cluster

I sure there's someone out there who's already reviewing their AI-generated code changes by feeding those changes into another AI.

And all that I hear running through my head is "GIGO,...