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Day: November 13, 2026

Remaining Relevant in an LLM World

Published 2026-11-13 by Kevin Feasel

Erik Darling shares some advice:

Erik Darling here with Darling Data. And in today’s video, we are not going to talk directly about SQL Server. We are going to talk about how to stay relevant in the age of AI, right? All the AI stuff going on.

Even, I mean, I think that’s, it’s obviously a stupid term. We all know that they’re LLMs, right? We all know it’s not artificial intelligence. It’s just random word generators. We just happen to, you know, be pretty, pretty decent at coding sometimes and whatnot.

Erik’s “I’m an old man because I use an RSS feed reader on my phone.” I feel seen.

I fully agree with Erik’s point about AI-generated blog posts as a waste of time. I get frustrated when I get part of the way through an article, have something click in my head, paste a chunk of the post into Pangram, and see that yeah, this is LLM-generated. Right around that time, I typically decide not to post it here (except in very specific circumstances).

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The Proliferation of AI-Generated Bug Reports for Postgres

Published 2026-11-13 by Kevin Feasel

Cristophe Pettis stands athwart History:

Lately, the PostgreSQL’s bug-report mailing list has been receiving a large number of AI-generated bug reports. Often, these come in flurries of 10-15 bugs, each from the same email address.

These bug reports are of, shall we say, highly variable quality.

Click through for a breakdown of several of these bug reports and the waste of time they embody. I think Cristophe makes a great point: the problem isn’t the language model itself. The problem is the human who clicks a few buttons, automates firing off e-mails, and says “I’m doing my part!”

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Changes in Microsoft’s Data Governance Strategy

Published 2026-11-13 by Kevin Feasel

Victoria Holt lays out some news:

AI is forcing a rethink of data governance. We are moving away from governance being something that sits alongside the data estate towards it becoming part of how data is managed and used.

The problems are familiar. Governance becomes fragmented across platforms and teams, controls become difficult to manage consistently, and manual processes struggle as the data estate grows. None of this comes from bad intentions. Data estates simply grow faster than the governance around them.

Putting governance closer to the data makes sense, particularly when that data is increasingly being used by AI as well as people. It makes it easier to use. An AI agent needs to know whether it can use the data, whether it is sensitive, what it means and whether it can be trusted. That makes good governance more important, not less.

Wolfgang Strasser has some additional thoughts:

Instead of separate Purview Data governance consumption meters, Microsoft states that governance is included in Fabric capacity. Actual cost implications still requires analysis. This is one of the things I am worrying about. For me, foundational governance features must be part of the platform and not be directly built using capacity units.

The cost is a question. The other question is, will Purview matter after this? Purview was a really neat idea, but I’ve always considered its cost prohibitive for most organizations. And, in one year, it’s going to be less capable but probably not less expensive.

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Hugo Kornelis In Memoriam

Published 2026-11-13 by Kevin Feasel

Hugo Kornelis has passed away:

Unfortunately, this will be the final post on my father’s blog. Yesterday, Hugo passed away peacefully, on November 3rd at 9:45 AM. He really wanted to prepare this final blog himself, but time caught up to him. I cannot write as eloquently as he could, but I will try my best to share his final two weeks here. I will write openly about what was going on with Hugo, as that is how he would have written it. I want to repeat the earlier warning my father used to add to all posts about his leukemia, especially these final moments may be hard to read. 

It’s sad that we lost such a great man in the SQL Server world. I am glad that Hugo was able to complete his masterpiece before then, and that it will continue beyond him.

Hugo presented for our SQL Server user group (the Triangle Area SQL Server Users Group) twice, in 2024. One talk was on the internals of a hash spill, and the other was about debugging without a debugger.

Thank you for all you ever did, Hugo.

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