As organizations move to the cloud, the once essential role of the Database Administrator (DBA) as the guardian of system optimization, has been overshadowed, often viewed as a bottleneck to innovation. Yet, as technology evolves, the one thing I know is history repeats itself, and optimization skills are once again emerging as a critical necessity. […]
2025-02-01
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The idea of data debt seems both silly and obvious to Steve. We all have too much data and it's out of control.
2025-01-31
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When you create something, do you think about the future? Steve asks the question today.
2025-01-29
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AI has tremendous possibilities but also a number of security issues. Steve highlights one scary security issue today.
2025-01-27
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In my family’s history of the past 10+ years, we have become well versed in nagging, ongoing, non-debilitating pain. In some ways, the lessons we have learned about physical pain correlate all too well to the types of pain that we technical people are involved with daily. But there is a huge difference, even if […]
2025-01-25
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Steve has a few thoughts on becoming more effective. This involves more than just becoming a better coder.
2025-01-24
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Most of us don't work on budgets, but we are affected by them. Is it a good idea for IT management to use AI to help plan their budgets? Steve has a few thoughts today.
2025-01-22
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This editorial was originally published on May 18, 2019. It is being re-run as Steve is on holiday. Back in my days as a SQL server DBA, I didn't have many third-party tools at my disposal. I remember having a monitoring tool with licenses for only three or four SQL server instances. Whenever there was […]
2025-01-20 (first published: 2019-05-18)
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2025-01-17
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You have a number of options for moving your database to the cloud, but Steve has a few things you might want to consider before you do so.
2025-01-15
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