AI Book Archives - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

Figure from chapter three, a two by two grid with sounds sure and sounds unsure across the top and right and wrong down the side, with the sure and wrong square marked as the danger zone.

Why AI Sounds Confident When It’s Wrong

October 15, 2026

AI, AI Book, Best Practices, Career Advice

Part three of ten. A wrong answer from a model sounds exactly like a right one. That single fact explains most of the damage AI does at work. Here are five interview answers that prove you already know it. Look at that grid for a second. Three of those four…

AI Sounds Like Someone, But Nobody Is in There

October 10, 2026

Pinal Dave

AI, AI Book, Best Practices, SQL Humor

AI sounds like someone, which is exactly why the checking stops. Cardinal read the cover of my book and has not recovered.

Figure showing that the model sees only what fits in its context window, and everything else is gone.

Tokens and the Context Window: Out of the Window, Out of Mind

October 8, 2026

Pinal Dave

AI, AI Book, Best Practices, Professional Development

Part two of ten. Most of the surprises people hit with AI at work trace back to this one chapter. A model reads in tokens, holds only so many at once, and charges for each one. 1. What is a token? A token is the unit of text a model…

Figure showing four circles, one inside the next: AI, machine learning, deep learning and generative AI.

AI Basics: The Four Circles, and Four More Questions

October 1, 2026

Pinal Dave

AI, AI Book, Career Advice, Professional Development

Part one of ten. Most AI interview questions start here, even for senior roles. Someone asks you to explain a large language model in plain words, and your answer tells them more than your resume does. 1. What is the difference between AI, machine learning, deep learning and generative AI?…

100 AI Interview Questions and Answers for Data Professionals

September 24, 2026

Pinal Dave

SQLAuthority News

AI, AI Book, Career Advice, Professional Development, SQL Book

My new book is out. It holds the 100 AI interview questions data interviewers ask now, with answers short enough to say out loud. Six of those questions are in this post, free.

Panel showing a machine and human in conversation.

AI: Nobody’s in There. Free if You Cannot Pay. Not Free if You Can.

July 23, 2026

Pinal Dave

AI Book

AI: Nobody’s in There is free to read at pinaldave.com if money is tight, and worth buying if you can. 30 deeply human essays on AI, love, and loss.

A human hand reaching toward a divine hand.

AI: Nobody’s in There, and That Is Good News

July 22, 2026

Pinal Dave

AI Book

AI: Nobody’s in There is 30 short, honest essays on judgment, learning, and work with AI. No hype, no doom, and why the empty machine is good news.