Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops. Three databases have no recorded full backup. One backup job failed. Many tools would link...
2026-10-02
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All About SQL
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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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
64 reads
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)
80 reads
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
205 reads
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
68 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
203 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)
71 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)
65 reads
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Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
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RegEx Functions IV
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers