Let’s Build a Better KILL. What Do We Need to ...
When there’s a performance emergency, a lot of us perform the same manual tasks over and over. We […]
Production Database Administration
Poll Results: Yes, Your DBAs Can Read the Data.
Last week, I asked if your database administrators could read all of the data in all databases. The […]
Poll: Can Your DBAs Read the Data?
It’s a simple question: can your database administrators read all of the data in all databases? Yes Yes, […]
Poll Results: How Often You’re Running Maintenance Tasks
Last week, I asked y’all how frequently you ran your full backups, corruption checks, index maintenance, and stats […]
[Poll] How Often Do You Run Maintenance Tasks?
How often do you run backups, corruption checking, index maintenance, and statistics updates? Click here to take the […]
Copilot in SSMS is Kinda Like IE in SSMS
You are not ready for how weird my take is. Last week at the PASS Summit conference in […]
Why Generative AI Scares the Hell Out of DBAs
I was chatting with a client’s DBA about this thought-provoking blog post about data governance in the age […]
Read This Before Your Users Install SSMS 20
SQL Server Management Studio 20 Preview 1 is out, and the new connection dialog has a big change: […]
ChatDBA: ChatGPT 4 Answers 5 Office Hours Questions
Every now and then, someone asks a question on PollGab about why I don’t use ChatGPT to answer […]