Recently my wife and I were comparing Cortana with Siri. It’s sometimes fun to compare virtual assistants to see how well they fare. Try asking Siri: “What time is it in GMT?”. We found a lot of others that Cortana knows that Siri doesn’t. This got me thinking. What if Clippy was included in SSMS?
There are so many DBA topics that Clippy could help with. What about Security? Could Clippy help there?
I’m not sure that’s what I was looking for; but, thanks Clippy.
What about Coding with TSQL?
Maintenance?
Uh?
Maybe we should stick with one of the most needed DBA topics: Performance.
Seriously, Clippy? You know it’s what we’re thinking but come on!
Anything else?
Nice!
While each of these are objectionably funny, the point remains that however annoying a virtual assistant may be it could be useful to have an extra hand when attempting to find issues in your queries or database instance.
I can visualize a future where SSMS includes Cortana and she’s actually helpful. This day may never come but I can certainly see it happening.
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Nice.
You can hook powerbi up to cortana… So in theory you can run compliance and performance Q&A’s for SQL via PowerBi.
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Y’know, I think there’s more to performance tuning than killing sessions, lol. But in real life I’ve seen one Clippy could help with like, “It looks like our junior code camp warrior Beavis has built Cartesian joins into the mission-critical app again, should I kill the connection and resend the email to management?”
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My friend Rick suggested this one: “I see you haven’t used your Azure Credits yet. Would you like me to setup stretch DB?”
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Stubs for a voice-enabled virtual assistant are already in the code for SQL Server 2017.
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Clippy is a bit sarcastic…
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Clippy being sarcastic is a sign of a very advanced AI with experience. I thought something similar when I heard about Cortana coming to Windows 10. I was having a bad day.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/SqlServer/en-US/ddafefc3-3f1b-49d7-81f5-357e5c0786c3/cortana-just-for-fun?forum=Offtopic
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I had a good laugh at: “Cortana, when I turned off UAC, I did not really turn off UAC?”
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SSDT with productivity power tools and turning on “treat t-sql warnings as errors” is pretty close to a clippy assistant. Less annoying though.
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It’s “fare” not “fair” in that usage. I’m an SQL nazi and also a grammar nazi…
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*Updated*
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