The AI bubble I hope will pop is the one I am standing inside, holding a book, a consulting practice, and the survival instincts of a cartoon coyote who has just looked down.
Eleven SQL Server Interview Questions That Look Far Too Easy
These eleven SQL Server interview questions look far too easy, and every one of them has stopped somebody senior.
Single-Query Tuning Versus Workload Tuning
Single-query tuning versus workload tuning decides whether one fast victory becomes a durable performance improvement.
Your Second Skill Was Never a Parachute
Your second skill was never a parachute, and the proof is six hundred years old. Understanding why that effort failed is the clearest way to understand what is happening to our own careers today.
Beautiful T-SQL Queries: Three Could Delete the Company
AI writes genuinely beautiful T-SQL. Aligned, aliased, commented, indented like a textbook. Beautiful has never meant correct, but we have spent thirty years treating it as a signed affidavit.
Tech Conferences Are Worth It. The Sessions Are Not.
Tech conferences are worth every hour I have ever given them. The sessions are not. So instead of spending a thousand words proving that first, here is the program for a conference that does not exist.
AI Slop: The Literary Offenses of the Machine
How to spot AI slop, discovered the hard way, over four hundred entries, in a dressing gown, at two in the morning, and ending in a place I did not care for.
Validating AI-Generated Index Recommendations
Validating AI-generated index recommendations is the step between a persuasive script and a change you can defend in production.
Cost Optimization That Never Reaches the Invoice
SQL Server cost optimization has a problem nobody puts on the slide. The savings are real, the dollars are real, and none of it reaches the invoice. This is the story of how I found that out in front of people. I want to tell you about the best week…
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A Better Fire Alarm Is Still a Fire
A better fire alarm is still a fire. Many SQL Server incidents I get called about were preventable with controls already available in the client’s environment. Here is the audit I wish had been run before the pager rang, complete with the T-SQL.