All Episodes
Voice of the DBA — 122 episodes
The Mythical Bus Accident
Security and AI Fail
Forward Deployed Engineers
I Can't Make You Learn
A Quick Second Opinion
Independence Day 2026
Cognitive Coverage
SQL Server Still Wins
I Want to Use My Brain
Spending Time in the Office
What is the Cloud?
Changes, Happiness, and a Few Tears
Follow Your Hunch
The Slow Growing Problems
Would You Retire Rather Than ...
The Data Model Matters
Over of Under Provisioned
The New Software Team
Limit the Blast Radius
What Can AI Really Do?
There's Too Much to Learn
The Dangers of Dependencies
Who is Using CAGs?
A Tool is Better than a Script
Half of All Engineers
Local Agents
Every Database Has Problems
The New OS Wars
Working Better Under Pressure
Who is Irresponsible?
Poor Names
Acting with Confidence
Barely Reviewed Code
AI Database Central
Prompt Requests
Is Your Time "Free"?
Doing the Little Things
Everything is the right question away
Hidden Heroes
Changing Data Types
Breaking Down Your Work
Multiple Deployment Processes
A Full Shutdown
Not Just an Upgrade
Writing as an Art and a Job
Rollback vs. Roll Forward
Having a Little Fun at SQL Server Central
Testing is Becoming More Important
Can You Let Go of Determinism
Doing Good at SQL Server Central
Engineer Lessons
Expanding into Print
The Power of Data and Privacy
The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
When SQL Server Central Went Down
Expensive CPUs
25 Years of SQL Server Central
There Are a Lot of Databases
More Documentation is Needed
Deep Learning and Craftsmanship Matter
Learning From Breakage
Eight Minutes
JSON Has a Cost
An SSIS Upgrade
Where Your Value Separates You from Others
Your AI Successes
Minimally Viable Security
The North Star for the Year
Finding Motivation
The Side Job
Your Value from a Conference
The Challenge of AI
Refactoring SQL Code
Investing for AI
Your Security Checkup
How Important Are Real Time Decisions?
SQL Server Licensing is Simple
Don't Let Corner Cases Drive Your Design
What's Your Theme Music?
Done is Better than Good
Is Data Modeling Common?
An Unexciting Exciting Release
Don't Create Workslop
Being Mindful of Design Time
Internal Staff Growth
Do You Really Need HA?
Poor Name Choice
Data > Hype
Practice Until You Don't Get It Wrong
The Selfish Case for Learning AI
Reducing Cloud Cost
DevOps is DevOps
Can/Can't Do/Don't
Be Wary of Data
The Journey to PostgreSQL (or anything)
We Should Demand Better
The Improvement Limit
Cleaning Up the Cloud
PRs Are Like Trouble Tickets
Chosing an AI Model in Sept 2025
Don't Forget About Financial Skills
Getting More Time from AI
All the Costs of Downtime
Remembering Phil Factor
Pushing the Limits of AGs
AI Steals Joy
The Security of Old Tech
Password Guidance
Requiring Technical Debt Payments
Guidelines and Requirements
Concerns over AI Chat Privacy
Data Sovereignty in the Cloud
Ghostworkers
Your Favorite Improvement
Can You Ask for a Raise?
The Next Great Thing
Who is Using Standard Edition?
Carrots and Sticks
Storage Enhancements
A Well Deserved Break
The Technical Debt Anchor
The Data Warehousing Choice