No backdoor. They're...

Filestream feels slighlty abandoned by MS, so I wouldn't recommend that. It's supposed, but no work done for a number of versions.

Yes, you should anonymize your data. You don't want any of this to leak into training, or even in logs that the AI vendor has. EVen with a business subscription,...

One of the problems we're seeeing is the human reviewers, and CI systems. are getting overwhelmed with AI code. I do think it's fair to ask the PR be modified...

xEvents is likely a good way to trace this. You can limit to just the alter user event for sa. Something like the following:

/*
================================================================================
  Extended Events...

https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/spam-issues-may-2026

Lol, that's an expensive use of creating a report and sticking it in a table. Is this a one time thing? IF so, not sure it makes sense to store...

OK, I know it's been a long few days here, with a ton of SPAM posts. We've deactivated a bunch of accounts and set some additional delays to prevent posts...

We're always playing catchup. I've had a ton of spam submissions today too. Someone is trying something new

There definitely is a place for both.

I think moving faster is good, but, as Jeff noted, you have to know what you want to move faster and evaluate the outputs. For repeatable stuff, where I know...

I think things are likely deterministic-ish. In the same way that

select * from lookuptable

is often deterministic. It's not unless it's

select * from lookuptable
order by...

There isn't a good way to measure the effectiveness, mostly because the results from LLMs are not deterministic. Using multiple models is mostly to try and understand how different they...

Definitely learn Linux. I miss working with Unix, and while I'm very comfortable in Windows, being comfortable with common *nix utilities and how to navigate is important.

I can see lots...

While our administrations are temporary, the bureaucracy isn't, and a lot of our government legal stuff is caught up there. So I'd suspect that the legal mechanisms that allow the...