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. The Black Death wage laws of 1349 explain what is happening to our careers.
Beautiful T-SQL Queries: Three Could Delete the Company
AI writes genuinely beautiful T-SQL queries. Aligned, aliased, commented. Beautiful has never meant correct, and three of these could delete the company.
Tech Conferences Are Worth It. The Sessions Are Not.
Tech conferences are worth every hour I have given them, but the sessions are not. So 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.