“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.
SqlPackage, Synonyms, and the Third-Party Database Problem
You’ve got a SQL Server database that talks to a third-party database via synonyms. The third-party vendor lets customers customize their schema. The table names differ across environments. You use SSDT and SqlPackage for deployments….
ADO Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
You’re in a meeting. Someone says “ADO.” Your brain — conditioned by 20+ years of muscle memory — immediately conjures up connection strings, recordsets, and ADODB.Connection. Then you realize they’re talking about a CI/CD pipeline….
Database Seeding: When to Hit the Table vs. When to Hit the API
You’ve got a new environment to stand up. Maybe it’s a fresh QA instance, maybe it’s a training environment someone just spun up, or maybe production got rebuilt after a disaster recovery test. Either way,…
Diplomacy Is a Feature, Not a Bug
I was reviewing some data export files the other day when a colleague flagged a problem. One of the rows in a CSV file was misaligned — columns shifted, extra fields appearing where they shouldn’t….