In this episode, Brian Knight, founder of Pragmatic Works, describes his accidental entrance into the field of technology. From a chance job offer to being “that guy” who hit the server rebuild button, you won’t want to miss this data origin story. Only someone like Brian could get such a great start by nuking a database and turning it into a DBA career where he would become both a prolific community member and content creator.

While reminiscing with Tom about SQL and the glory days of being a DBA, Brian admits that his focus has recently shifted to Power Apps. When asked why he shares that the lure of building in a couple of days what in the past would have taken several years was just too strong.

It isn’t just about the past, though, as the crew gets into a lively discussion on AI and its future impact on the arts. No spoilers here but it may just be that AI can be a beneficial part of creative society, not by replacing people as artists but by augmenting the existing skillset of current and future artists in a similar way the Power Platform enhanced skills of people in tech to create the Citizen Developers we all know and love.

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Also on this episode:

SQL Server Central

Tom’s blog: Operations Manager and SQL Server

Septic Companions and Breaded Capacitors, w/ Chris Rae

GitHub Copilot

Open AI

Two QB Rob Blog

Cat in the Hat: Calculatus Eliminatus

Pragmatic Works is a Two Word Sentence, w/ Brian Knight

Raw Data By P3 Adaptive