Is It OK to Show My Database Schema to ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot?

I’m answering two questions from Brent Ozar’s list of user questions open for answers.

Q: What’s your opinion of entering confidential info in chat gpt? Will we see AI therapist chat bots?

Q: In terms of security, is it OK to expose your database to tools like GitHub Copilot in Azure Data Studio? Someone will know that your email address column is not encrypted or a stored procedure is not parsing its input parameters when dynamic T-SQL is built.

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ChatGPT Says SSMS Is the Best SQL Server Monitoring Tool

One thing I enjoy about AI chatbots is that they can help me recognize when I’ve missed something obvious.

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Use ChatGPT to See Multiple Perspectives: An Example With ORMs and Database Code

There’s a lot of hype, concern, and fear regarding generative AI lately. Tools like ChatGPT are so good at generating groups of words that it feels like magic– however, generative AI doesn’t have the ability to understand or verify the language it generates. For example, it’s been used to write news stories for CNET – but sometimes included facts that are just plain wrong.

One positive use case of a generative AI tool like ChatGPT is to ask it to make a case for different perspectives than your own, and use this as a starting point to broaden your understanding – with the knowledge that we need to verify everything ChatGPT tells us. As an example, let’s chat to ChatGPT about Object Relational Mapping tools (ORMs).

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