SQL Server Central has been a great success over the last 25 years. We’ve helped a lot of people improve their careers with the Microsoft Data Platform, primarily SQL Server, but we’ve published articles on other aspects of databases, including other platforms. I wrote a bit about the history of the site last month, with a few stories in various pieces. We even got Brian Knight to contribute a piece on what the site meant to him.

Over the years, we experimented with trying to get an SSIS Central or a SSRS Central off the ground. However, we struggled to find other people who would have been willing to partner with us to provide content and answer questions. Eventually, we gave up, though I wish today we’d have pushed forward with a PostgreSQL Central site a few years back.

However, we’re moving forward with AI Database Central next week. This is an experiment that will look to gather lots of articles and news on how AI technology can be used to work with databases. Our goal is to build a site that showcases some of the ways in which AI works well. To handle the load of producing articles, we’ve got a very modern take.

We’re setting up a Clawdbot system that will read existing articles and questions and then produce its own articles based on the knowledge of what AIs have about database technology. For every article here on SQL Server, we’ll get a series of articles that cover the same topic on Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB to start. We’ll turn the AI agents loose on more platforms over time, but our hope is that this will provide an exhaustive body of knowledge that other data professionals and AI agents can use. We’ll even have an MCP server available.

Of course, we will take submissions, which AI agents will edit and provide feedback. We’re also looking to experiment with submissions of editorial topics and ideas, which the AI agent will then use to produce its own content for you to read.

This will likely not work that well, mostly because it’s April 1 and this is an April Fools joke. It could be possible, couldn’t it? Not likely very good, but it could be fun.

Steve Jones

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