Sharing GitHub Copilot Instructions Across Repos and Teams
Your AI assistant starts every conversation as a blank slate. It doesn’t know your team uses COALESCE instead of ISNULL. It doesn’t know your naming conventions, your commit message format, or the three anti-patterns that…
“Now I Have the Full Picture” The Most Dangerous Lie Your AI Agent Tells You
AI agents confidently say “Now I have the full picture” but they can’t know what they’re missing. Here’s what can go wrong when you let an agent run things unsupervised.
Your AI Agent Is Quietly Corrupting Your SQL Files
AI agents writing T-SQL via PowerShell here-strings produce LF line endings, breaking SSMS and diffs.
Teaching Your AI Assistant to Remember: Session Checkpoints for Multi-Day Work
If you’ve used an AI coding assistant for anything beyond a quick one-off question, you’ve hit the wall: the conversation context runs out. You start a new session, and the assistant has no idea what…
A Junior DBA’s Field Guide to This Series: What Your Mentor Forgot to Explain
A companion guide for junior DBAs navigating the ALTER DBA ADD AGENT series. Maps the vocabulary walls, production safety gaps, and confidence calibration challenges that experienced readers won’t even notice.
SQL Server Patching Pre/Post Checks with AI
Generate matched pre-patch and post-patch validation scripts with AI for safe SQL Server patching.