SSMS Copilot Is Messing with Your AI Prompts
SSMS Copilot is reportedly providing inaccurate advice due to issues with how it prompts language models. Users have found that the tool biases responses towards incorrect answers, which can lead to confusion. There is a call for Microsoft to improve the prompting mechanism to enhance the accuracy of responses across different models.
- ▪SSMS Copilot's prompting may bias it towards incorrect answers.
- ▪Users have experienced consistent inaccuracies when using Copilot for SQL tasks.
- ▪There is a suggestion to use T-SQL to create better prompts for language models instead.
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SSMS Copilot is Messing With Your AI Prompts.Last Updated May 20, 2026Brent OzarAIYou might notice that the advice you get from Copilot in SSMS isn’t very good, but it isn’t necessarily AI in general. Part of the problem is something specific about SSMS Copilot and the way it prompts LLMs, and I wish I could tell you exactly what it is, but I can’t because I don’t have access to how SSMS is changing your prompts. Let’s take a task I need to do all the time, and I constantly forget the syntax to do it. How do I turn on last actual plans? That answer is wrong. Period. Flat out incorrect. I’m not even ON 2022, I’m on 2025.
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