On 08 Jan 2026, I recorded this video of me using Claude Code to “one-shot” the development of a Windows application. What does one-shot mean? Andy’s definition: A one-shot is when a developer interacts with AI and the results are generated correctly on the first attempt. Enjoy!
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Install Durandal Memory MCP Server to Mitigate AI Context Fatigue
The following is an excerpt from a 200+ page document titled AI-Assisted Data Engineering Development Playbook: How I Set Up a Virtual Server (Virtual Machine) for Modern Data Engineering for sale at DELMSuite.com, but available – free – to paid subscribers of my newsletter: Engineer of Data. The phrases context fatigue, attention degradation, instruction drift, …
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Stephen Leonard, AI Engineer, Enterprise Data & Analytics
I’m excited to announce Enterprise Data & Analytics has an AI Engineer. I’m more excited to announce that EDNA’s AI Engineer is my older son, Stephen Leonard! I’ve mentioned I starting vide coding in earnest in March of this year (2025). The (released) results are free utilities now available at Data Engineering Lifecycle Management …
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#TSQL2sday Has AI Helped you with your SQL Server Job?
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by my friend and brother from another mother, Pinal Dave. My job title is Chief Data Engineer for Enterprise Data & Analytics and Enterprise Data & AI. So, “Has AI Helped you with your SQL Server Job?” In a word, yes. I can hear some of you thinking, … …
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Rarely Say Never
Years ago, I responded privately to my brother and friend, Buck Woody (@BuckWoodyMSFT | LinkedIn) when he shared (excellent) advice about when to shrink a SQL Server database (spoiler alert: rarely). I asked Buck, “If shrinking a SQL Server database is nearly always bad, why not remove the feature from SQL Server?” (paraphrased). Buck’s response …
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Moral AI
We hear a lot about ethical AI. It’s an important topic, and I may be splitting hairs when I apply the adjective “moral.” In this post, I will not cover what I believe to be the difference between ethical and moral. I believe either adjective covers my concern (in this post). I can hear some …
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Enterprise Data & Analytics Welcomes Shannon Lowder!
I am honored and thrilled to welcome Shannon Lowder (@shannonlowder | blog | LinkedIn) to the Enterprise Data & Analytics team! Shannon is a data engineer, data scientist, BimlHero (though not listed on the page at the time of this writing), and shepherd of the Biml Interrogator open source project. If you use Biml to generate SSIS …
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William McKnight on Data Driven
Frank and I had a great chat with William McKnight of the Data Decoded podcast and McKnight Consulting Group. It’s a great conversation. Check out our interview with William McKnight at Data Driven! :{>