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Beautiful T-SQL Queries: Three Could Delete the Company

August 17, 2026
Pinal Dave
AI
Developer

AI writes genuinely beautiful T-SQL queries. Aligned, aliased, commented. Beautiful has never meant correct, and three of these could delete the company.

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AI Slop: The Literary Offenses of the Machine

August 13, 2026
Pinal Dave
AI
Developer

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.

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Visible incident response attracts alerts and recognition while quiet prevention keeps the system healthy

A Better Fire Alarm Is Still a Fire

August 10, 2026
Pinal Dave
AI
Developer

A better fire alarm is still a fire, and many SQL Server incidents I get called for were preventable. Here is the T-SQL audit I wish had run before the pager rang.

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They Finished the AI Training. Eleven Days Later, the Job Was Gone

August 7, 2026
Pinal Dave
AI
Career Advice, Developer

An anonymous interview with a database professional who finished the AI training their employer assigned. Eleven days later, the job was gone.

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Nine Unusual Ways My Clients Use AI With SQL Server

August 6, 2026
Pinal Dave
AI
Oracle, SQL Index, SQL NULL, SQL Performance

Everyone writes about AI generating queries. Here are nine unusual ways my clients use AI with SQL Server, and I helped build every one.

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AI Training at Work: Nobody Is Coming

August 5, 2026
Pinal Dave
AI
Developer

Everyone is waiting for AI training at work. It took me a hundred conversations to understand what they are actually waiting for, and it is not a course.

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AI Mistakes at Work: Who Never Gets Fooled

August 3, 2026
Pinal Dave
AI
AI, Developer

Who catches AI mistakes at work? Not the smartest person in the room. It has never once been the smartest person in the room.

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