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.
Tech Conferences Are Worth It. The Sessions Are Not.
Tech conferences are worth every hour I have ever given them. The sessions are not. So instead of spending a thousand words proving that first, here is the program for a conference that does not exist.