The Voice of the DBA

I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a few entries. Here’s a look at the blogs people published. First as always, Rob Farley...

2025-10-28

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SQL Clone at Scale with Striped Backups

by Steve Jones

The Voice of the DBA

I had a customer recently reach out to ask if SQL Clone would work with 20 backup files. I decided to test this. This is part of a series...

2025-10-27

20 reads

Advice I Like: Training Employees

by Steve Jones

The Voice of the DBA

Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well enough that they never want to. – from Excellent Advice for Living This one is...

2025-10-24

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Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI

by Steve Jones

The Voice of the DBA

I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s for help. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. The Problem...

2025-11-07 (first published: 2025-10-22)

258 reads

The End of Year Vacation Burn

by Steve Jones

The Voice of the DBA

It’s been a good year for me. With my sabbatical, I felt like I’ve gotten away from work quite a bit this year. I’ve had a few vacations around...

2025-10-20

16 reads

The Book of Redgate: Don’t be an a**hole

by Steve Jones

The Voice of the DBA

This was one of the original values: The facing page has this text: No matter how smart you are, or how good you are at narrowly defined tasks, there...

2025-10-17

169 reads

A Broken Copilot Query

by Steve Jones

The Voice of the DBA

I was testing the new SSMS (v22 Preview 3) with Copilot and ran into an interesting issue. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. My...

2025-10-16

150 reads

Prompt AI helping with Auditing

by Steve Jones

The Voice of the DBA

I had a conversation with a customer asking this question: how can I tell who called a stored procedure so I can audit the action? I decided to see...

2025-10-31 (first published: 2025-10-15)

285 reads