This is going to be a big problem. I can see some companies trying to firewall/limit access to sites for AI, but I bet enough executives just want to take...

Interesting. I'll give it a look when I get a chance.

If you would like t write a tutorial or article, send me a note.

Interesting read: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

I think the reality of the new world is that both AI and bots are going to be an annoying set of things to deal wtih.

Without context, that isn't good or bad. Asking things like that without context isn't helpful....

My concern is that use of GenAI is causing people to not think. Even cell phones cause issues... how many people do not remember a frequently called phone number...

Here are a few resources. I haven't taken this, but I have seen some other people write about what to do:

• https://johnmccormack.it/2023/04/thoughts-on-sitting-dp-300-azure-database-administrator-exam/
• LP - https://www.linkedin.com/learning/paths/prepare-for-the-azure-database-administrator-associate-dp-300-certification
• https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/7874/exam-dp-300-administering-microsoft-azure-sql-solutions-study-guide/

Answer Phil's questions, but the thing I might think about is having a final step that looks at sysjobhistory and then sends a note based on any failures of any...

We've had test emails from the CEO and others that were designed to catch people not paying attention. A few of those a year seems to get more people to...

I might suggest you document things that you've done during commute hours or after hours. Point out that some of these things might not be done if you lose time...

...and I think I still spend more time learning and typing with GenAI tools than I'd like.

If that means what I think it does, then I agree, and think...

Considering how they are advertising it as a replacement for programmers, why wouldn't it turn out to be "less useful that expected".  It can't even to a proper conversion...

Corporate budgets can be crazy. I hate that kind of stuff

Express is free, but no SSIS/SSRS with this. I don't think there are free replacements for them

I might aim for a VM in the cloud I can shut down. Storage...

One very simple but useful task I use AI for is to summarise documents I author.

Adobe Reader allows you to generate a summary of the open document. I do...