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T-SQL Tuesday #199 – Moving Back From the Cloud

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday invite comes from Koen Verbeeck, who asks us to think about what it would look like to move back to on-premises infrastructure after years in the cloud. Do we still have the skills to go back to on-premises? What types of on-premises issues would be the most frustrating? Click the T-SQL…

Impact of Automatic Index Compaction

Index work has almost always been a core task for database administrators. If indexes aren’t performing well, then your queries probably aren’t performing well. And if your queries aren’t performing well, you aren’t performing well, because users will be complaining. There isn’t one set way to manage indexes. Maybe you use Ola Hallengren scripts. Maybe…

Your Next Database Prank

An interesting discovery was made as it relates to OpenAI Codex and its system prompt. From this article: The system prompt for OpenAI’s Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model to “never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is…

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