Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into an incident. A log file fills up, backups fall behind, and by the time anyone...
2026-07-29
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Arun Sirpal
Building AgentDBA’s Slack Escalation
Until now, a CRITICAL finding did the right internal routing, but the last mile was a log line — useful for an audit trail, useless at 3am. v1.2.0 closes...
2026-07-15
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How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of it, nobody’s fixed it, it’s just there — a handful of small compliance gaps that...
2026-07-03 (first published: 2026-07-02)
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How AgentDBA Diagnoses SQL Server Issues Fast
Not every production incident is a database in RECOVERY_PENDING or a corrupted event (like the other post). Sometimes the server is just a mess. Jobs failing. Error log full...
2026-06-23 (first published: 2026-06-22)
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AgentDBA vs Critical SQL Server
It’s 07:43. Someone’s already left a message. “Something’s wrong with the DB server.” You open the terminal and go to work. This post is about what happens next —...
2026-06-16
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Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A read-only advisory system does exactly two things: it observes and it recommends. It never acts....
2026-06-11
33 reads
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the database realm the first thing that people do is a straightforward concept, connect the LLM...
2026-06-09
175 reads
AI Insights for Database Monitoring: A DBA’s Perspective
Second in a series on Ai and databases. One Story, three signals – I have a backup of a critical database that has failed three times, the recovery point...
2026-06-05 (first published: 2026-06-04)
32 reads
Databases and AI Agents
As part of my wider work exploring Claude Code and AI-assisted database engineering, I have been looking at how AI can support SQL Server operations. A failed job, missed...
2026-06-03 (first published: 2026-05-17)
527 reads
Claude Context Window
Every Claude conversation has a context window. It is the total amount of text Claude can work with in a single chat — your messages, its replies, uploaded files,...
2026-05-30 (first published: 2026-05-29)
27 reads
Blogs
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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