Your index rebuild maintenance plan takes four hours every Sunday, fills the log and delays the backup. It may be buying you far less than everybody assumes.
AI Execution Plan Analysis: I Gave It My Plan and Asked What Was Wrong
I handed AI a plan with no warnings and healthy numbers, yet it read five million rows to return seventeen. That is the real test of AI execution plan analysis.
Y2K: The Work Behind “Nothing Happened”
Y2K did not end in worldwide disaster. Its repairs, failures, and recoveries show why, and what database teams can learn about proving maintenance matters.
Fermat Left a Note in a Margin. Other People Spent 358 Years Finishing It.
That note kept mathematicians busy for the next three and a half centuries. Let us talk about what Fermat left in a margine.
Every Database Has These Seven Tables
Walk into any company, open the production database, and you will find the same seven tables. Nobody planned it, and I have personally created four of them.
NOLOCK Can Miss Rows: The Order That Was Never Missing
Yes, NOLOCK can miss rows. A row can vanish from your report while it sits safely in the table. Nobody deleted it. The read simply walked past it.
Everyone Expected AI to Come From the Big Companies
Everyone expected AI to come from the big companies. The research did come from their labs, but the products did not, and the reason is not talent or budget.