Carlos Robles

Carlos Robles is Microsoft Data Platform MVP also a very experienced multi platform DBA (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, SQL Azure) with over 10 years of experience in the database field.

He has worked in database support as a primary consultant and DBA manager for large national and international companies in the healthcare, finance and insurance, retail, food and energy industries.

International speaker, author, blogger, mentor, Guatemala SQL User group leader. If you don’t find him talking about geek stuff with his friends on twitter, it is very likely that he will be having a great time with his wife and daughter in the beautiful outdoors of Colorado.

Tagline: Just another witchcraft and wizardry site and DBA tips,
Interests: SQL Server, Linux, Databases
Blog: http://dbamastery.com

Website: http://dbamastery.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/croblesdba/

Is your SQL Server environment ready for GDPR? Part 1

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

Unless you have been living under a rock lately, you have not heard about GDPR. This has been hot topic...

2018-05-25

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SQL Vulnerability Assessment

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

Vulnerability assessment is probably one of the most underrated new security features in SSMS 17. This feature is not new...

2018-05-21

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Reviewing the SQL Server ERROR log

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

The SQL Server ERROR log is the best source to understand what’s wrong with your SQL Server instance, think this...

2018-05-10

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ITIL certification for DBAs – Part 1

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

In some point of your career as DBA you might have interacted with ITIL or at least your heard about...

2018-04-13

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ITIL certification for DBAs – Part 2

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

In my previous post I did my best explain a little bit what ITIL is and how important is for...

2018-04-13

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SQL Saturday #695 Guatemala

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

This is probably a very delayed post, but I have been really busy lately.
As mentioned in my previous post, I...

2018-03-23

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Speaker at SQL Saturday’s Guatemala city 2018

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

I’m very thrilled to announce that I will be participating as speaker in this year’s SQL Saturday event in Guatemala city!
Here...

2018-01-04

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MSDB Tuning by purging backup and restore history

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

Have you ever had problem with your backup jobs taking more time than usual overlapping your maintenance window? It is...

2017-12-01

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SQL Server Management Studio Reports

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

Today’s tip is a very basic functionality that comes with any SSMS (SQL Server Management studio), we are talking about...

2017-11-07

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Blogs

A New Word: Foilsick

foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to...

Accelerated Database Recovery for tempdb in SQL Server 2025

By Andrew Pruski

Accelerated database recovery was introduced in SQL Server 2019 and provides fast recovery, instantaneous...

Measuring What Matters: Operationalizing Data Trust for CDOs

Trust is the currency of the data economy. Without it, even the most advanced...

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Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs

By Nisarg Upadhyay

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...

count the number of NULLs in a row

Hi everyone I have a SP that finds the average based on 3 tables. ...

Deleting data in large table

By Jackie Lowery

I have a large table with 17M+ rows for our package record audits. I've...

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SQL Server Ghosts

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