2025-12-22
9,441 reads
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The Challenge of AI
Steve sees a lot of challenges ahead for AI, especially in the area of labor and employment.
2025-12-17
82 reads
Investing for AI
Steve looks to the future of Microsoft and AI after listening to a podcast with Satya Nadella
2025-12-10
118 reads
How to Build an AI-Powered T-SQL Assistant with Python & SQL Server
If you’re a SQL Server DBA or developer looking to harness AI for your everyday scripting workflows, this article will walk you through building an AI-powered T-SQL assistant using Python and SQL Server.
2025-11-19
Don't Create Workslop
AI can help us do more, but do we need to do more? Or more importantly, are we doing a good job of producing more useful stuff?
2025-11-17
186 reads
2025-11-15
98 reads
Data > Hype
Most of us believe in the importance of data. Steve has a few thoughts on using data to determine if AI is helpful.
2025-11-05
83 reads
The Selfish Case for Learning AI
Steve has a good reason to spend time working with and learning about AI technology.
2025-10-31
142 reads
Lessons from the Postmark-MCP Backdoor
The Koi Security team recently uncovered the first known, malicious MCP server in the wild: a package called postmark-mcp, downloaded over 1,500 times per week, that silently BCCs every outgoing email to an attacker-controlled domain. So, what happened? High-level, a lot: The attacker cloned the legitimate Postmark MCP repository, made one small but nefarious change […]
2025-10-04
194 reads
Natural Language Query for SQL Server
Data is usually the most important asset in organizations, but only SQL developers can frequently access that data. Technical teams often write queries for non-technical users. This restricts agility, slows decision-making, and creates a bottleneck in data accessibility. One possible remedy is natural language processing (NLP), which enables users to ask questions in simple English and receive answers without knowing any code. Still, the majority of NLP-to-SQL solutions are cloud-based, which raises issues with cost and privacy.
2025-10-03
Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
Cross-DB Ownership Chaining problem
We want to setup a gateway db to host stored procedures which use tables...
Lots of FKs
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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