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Sending Emails from SQL Server 2025 based on AI generated messages
Welcome to the future of data. For a long time, databases were just digital filing cabinets. You put data in, and you took data out. But with SQL Server 2025,
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Time, The Foundation for Effective Operational Capacity Planning
When it comes to managing the capacity of operational and infrastructure teams (like DBAs, DBREs, SREs, and PFEs), the traditional product development metric of using story points often doesn’t work
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A Beginner’s Guide to Roadmaps for DBREs and DBAs
If you work in operations, whether you are a DBA, DBRE, SRE, or somewhere in between, you already know most work is urgent. Something always needs fixing, tuning, patching, scaling,
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Why Every Byte Matters for SQL Server Pages
Think of a SQL Server data page as a Delta carry-on suitcase. It is always the same size, 8 kilobytes. When people talk about making SQL Server fast, they usually
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GIT Simple Workflow & Cheat Sheet
Git can feel overwhelming for newbies, especially if you are a DBA or a new DBRE who is suddenly expected to use it every day. The best thing you can
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“Rebuilding Indexes and Updating Statistics” The DBA’s Panic Button
We have all met this DBA. That has a “panic button” for every performance issue. The Index Rebuild and then update statistics. Dave’s maintenance schedule is aggressive. He rebuilds heavy
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Understanding the Basic Architecture of Azure Managed Cassandra
I’ve been learning about Azure Managed Cassandra recently, and it’s very different from the usual relational SQL Server database. The documentation and tutorials can seem confusing at first, but once
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My First Step in AI-Driven Ops
Automating SQL Server to Jira with Python (Phase 1) I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about observability and how I can use AI to automate fixing problems, not
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Knowledge Hoarding and What Changed My Perspective
Last year, while speaking at PASS about imposter syndrome, another topic that kept coming up in conversations was knowledge hoarding. At the time, I didn’t fully understand it. I’ve always
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Is That Index Really Fixing Your ORM Query Performance or Just Adding Costs?
Recently, I thought a database query in a plan was straightforward. It looked innocent until I noticed strange behavior. The deeper I dug, the more I realized many people might
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