I let AI recommend SQL Server indexes across a week of queries, measured every number before and after, and the result was not the one I expected to write about.
Who Is Going to Do My Job Now?
Who is going to do my job now. That was the question in an email that arrived at 4:41 this morning, from a man who gave sixteen years to one company and handed his laptop back before lunch yesterday.
Using Historical Data to Confirm Performance Improvements
Using historical data to confirm performance improvements turns a fast test into evidence the business can defend.
Full, Differential and Log Backups: A Practical Guide
Full, differential and log backups are the three things almost every SQL Server DBA can define, and the three things a surprising number of us get wrong under pressure at two in the morning.
What AI Thinks a DBA Does All Day
What AI thinks a DBA does all day is a calm, orderly, deeply reassuring Tuesday. It has backups, documentation, proactive health checks, and apparently a door that closes. I asked. Then I wrote down my actual Tuesday. Its day has six items. Mine has thirteen.
AI Bubble: I Hope It Pops
The AI bubble I hope will pop is the one I am standing inside, holding a book, a consulting practice, and the survival instincts of a cartoon coyote who has just looked down.
Eleven SQL Server Interview Questions That Look Far Too Easy
These eleven SQL Server interview questions look far too easy, and every one of them has stopped somebody senior.
Single-Query Tuning Versus Workload Tuning
Single-query tuning versus workload tuning decides whether one fast victory becomes a durable performance improvement.
Your Second Skill Was Never a Parachute
Your second skill was never a parachute, and the proof is six hundred years old. Understanding why that effort failed is the clearest way to understand what is happening to our own careers today.
Beautiful T-SQL Queries: Three Could Delete the Company
AI writes genuinely beautiful T-SQL. Aligned, aliased, commented, indented like a textbook. Beautiful has never meant correct, but we have spent thirty years treating it as a signed affidavit.