The Recording
The Panelists
- Kevin Feasel
- Mala Mahadevan
- Mike Chrestensen
Notes: Questions and Topics
MVP Summit
Last week, Tracy and I were in Redmond for MVP Summit. It was good seeing a bunch of people for the first time in several years.
Cross-Platform Code
We next talked a bit about the notion of cross-platform code, that is, code which runs in Oracle, SQL Server, and other relational databases. There’s some value in the idea but the problem is that you lose out on some of the platform-specific performance and code benefits and end up designing for mediocrity rather than high performance.
What Compatibility Level Does
Our first real topic was a Brent Ozar blog post on compatibility level. The short version is that recent versions of SQL Server have introduced more functionality wrapped around compatibility level, and it’s good to know which things are gated by compatibility level—and importantly, which things aren’t.
Another Large Language Model Rant
Chat then baited me into a discussion on large language models and using ChatGPT for coding assistance. Where I’m at with this is, if you’re good enough to know what code you intend to write (and you don’t worry about potential licensing problems), you can probably treat ChatGPT as a drunken intern who writes code that you need carefully to review. Aside from that, I’m rather pessimistic about the whole notion.