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...

I think you would be better off with Zork in SQL Server than Doom

If the features exist, however clunky, they're there. In that case, it's feature complete, but the feature perhaps need definement. Feature complete doesn't mean that there isn't work to be...

Thanks, glad you like it.

Thanks, glad you like it.

I think the docs are wrong. I was doing a few things here and didn't test the explicit phrase in the docs, which appears to be wrong.

My own tests with...