I Don't Want To Do XX
Every job is a job on some days. I've said this to my kids and others I've mentored over the years. I've probably written that here, and I t...
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voiceofthedba's podcast
A series of episodes that look at databases and the world from a data professional's viewpoint. Written and recorded by Steve Jones, editor of SQLServerCentral and The Voice of the DBA.
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20 of 146 episodesThe Cost of Multiple Platforms
I ran into an interesting post that noted the modern data platform can have a bunch of different systems underlying it . The example might b...
The End of Summer
Growing up, this was the last week of summer for me every year. When I was a child in Virginia Beach, school started the day after Labor Day...
Measuring Productivity
I've dealt with a lot of customers with who lately are concerned with the ROI of their teams. Certainly they want a good ROI if they purchas...
Preserving Data
Most data professionals I know go out of their way to take care of the data entrusted to them. Most people ensure backups are running, lots...
Collecting Data is Hard
Data is the lifeblood of much of the world today. Not necessarily big data, and certainly not perfect data, but organizations, individuals,...
Admin Rights for Everyone
I was chatting with someone that works at a smaller organization Still a few hundred employees, but the technical teams (dev and ops) were l...
A Challenge of Our Knowledge
AI is here to stay. It will evolve, it will get better at some things, and we might decide that it's not good for certain tasks. It's a weir...
An Eventual Consistency Scam
Recently I sold a car. It was an interesting process as I hadn't sold a car to someone I didn't know in a long time. I listed the car in a f...
Never is Not the Policy
Years ago I worked with a few developers and DBAs that were temp-table happy. As in they defaulted to using temp tables everywhere. This was...
A Worse Computer; A Better Car
A few weeks ago, my wife and I purchased a Lucid Gravity for our second EV. We've owned a Tesla for almost five years, and it has been an am...
Building Great Software
Most of us will work on software for our organization, and we might not want to or care about the end result being great. We do want it to w...
Imagine the Physical World
Brent Ozar has a series of database animations posts , where he tries to explain what work is done by SQL Server during certain operations,...
The Quiet Part
Apparently, Meta did what a lot of employees suspect their management will do: use AI to lay off people. In this case, there is a report (an...
Are You Working More Hours?
Recently, I noticed my son was coming home later and going to work earlier. He typically works a 9/80 schedule as a software engineer, but a...
Finding Bad Queries
T-SQL Tuesday #200 was in July, hosted by Brent Ozar, and it was a great topic: How do you recognize a bad query? In the age of AI, when lot...
Fixing P1 Queries
When we look at the performance of software, we use Pnn notation to indicate the latency of an issue. A P95 problem is one that exceeds the...
Building Your Own Software
Lots of AI usage has been spent inside companies on building new software. Sometimes people are trying to rebuild existing software. I've se...
Make It Routine
The first one is hard. The rest are boring. I heard this statement from someone recently, and it sounds like something a technical person wo...
Another Model, More Data Loss
This past week I saw an article on eWeek that the newest OpenAI GPT-5.6 (Sol) model has deleted local files and live data. Files I'm less wo...