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.

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.

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.

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.