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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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Small Steps to Automate Repetitive Manual Tickets with AI
If you handle Jira tickets every day, you’ve probably seen the same requests repeatedly: These are perfect candidates for small AI-assisted automation. You don’t need to rebuild your workflow or […]
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The Ultimate Checklist for DBRE’s
Lately, I’ve been asked a lot about the path of a DBRE. What does the role look like? What do you need to know? How is it different from a […]
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Git Best Practices and Hard Lessons Learned
I want to share some Git best practices (and a few of the worst) that I’ve picked up over the years. These are things you probably shouldn’t do unless you […]
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Getting Started with Git and VS Code on Windows as a New DBRE
If you’re starting as a Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) or DBA, chances are your team uses Git to store its repositories. That means you’ll need to install Visual Studio Code […]
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Git and VS Code Setup for New DBREs on Mac
If you’re starting as a Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) or DBA, chances are your team uses Git to store its repositories. That means you’ll need to install Visual Studio Code […]
