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Voice of the DBA

A series of episodes that look at databases and the world from a data professional"s viewpoint. Written and recorded by Steve Jones, editor of SQLServerCentral and The Voice of the DBA.

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03:08

Trust is a Funny Thing

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/02/24

I caught an article on AI skepticism and there was a point in the article where trust was mentioned. Specifically the reasons that people distrust an AI or tech tool is that it makes a mistake, so they stop using it. A few examples of this were using a writing AI that made a grammar mistake or a GPS routing device that added a wrong detour. In those cases the humans stopped using the assistance of the algorithm because they felt it wasn't trustworthy. What's fascinating to me is that I had this same

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05:00

Moving On After a Technology Fail

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/02/21

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03:30

Is Ransomware Fading?

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/02/19

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02:48

How Much Linux Do You Need?

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/02/14

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03:14

The End of Azure Data Studio

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/02/12

I don't know how many of you will be disappointed or impacted by this, but Azure Data Studio (ADS) is being retired, as of 6 Feb, 2024. It will be supported for a little over a year, until 28 Feb, 2026. On one hand I'm not surprised, and on the other, I'm a little shocked by this. I have written a number of articles on ADS, and shown how things work, as well as pointed out a number of things that don't work well in the product or its extensions. These pieces have gotten a number of reads, and

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02:11

Extended Event Comfort

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/02/10

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02:19

Unreliable Narrators

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/02/07

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03:38

Building a Data Center

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/02/05

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02:21

Words vs Data

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/02/03

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03:33

Data Debt

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/01/31

I had never heard of data debt until I saw this article on the topic. In reading it, I couldn't help thinking that most everyone has data debt, it creates inefficiencies, and it's unlikely we'll get rid of it. And by the way, it's too late to get this under control. I somewhat dismissed the article when I saw this: "addressing data debt in its early stages is crucial to ensure that it does not become an overwhelming barrier to progress." I know it's a barrier, as I assume most of you also know, but

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02:39

Creating vs. Maintaining

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/01/29

If your job as a developer or DBA has been like mine, it's a constant stream of requests to change something, often without enough information and short deadlines that create a bit of stress. There's always more work to be done, and while it might be a great job, you're often trying to finish something quickly enough to get to the next thing. In this mode, how often do you think about creating (or modifying) the thing you're working on for today vs maintaining it for tomorrow. In other words, do you

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02:54

The Era of Cloned Humans

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/01/27

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03:50

Can You Become a More Productive Engineer?

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/01/24

The short answer is of course, most of us can learn and improve our skills to become better developers, engineers, DBAs, etc. While we might not be able to become the 10x engineer that many aspire to be, we can certainly become a better employee inside of an organization. There's a piece on becoming a more effective engineer, which is actually titled know how your org works. It a piece from an engineer that started with a tweet: The text was:You can either complain and pontificate on Twitter on how

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03:30

The AI Budget Assistant

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/01/22

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04:00

The Types of Changes

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/01/17

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03:30

The Managed Cloud Database Options

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/01/15

There are many, many choices for cloud database services these days. I would hope everyone is aware of the various IaaS options in public clouds with EC2, Azure VMs, GCP Compute Engine, and others. These are often the easiest way to move your workload, but you've really just moved a VM from one place to another (likely more expensive) place. For managed databases, there are lots of choices, but you might not be aware of your options. I ran across an article that discusses the various flavors of

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03:36

Simple(r) Coffee

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/01/13

Starbucks has too many order combinations. This article about the challenges for their new CEO notes there are over 170,000 combinations of things customers can order. As someone who has visited a store often and stood behind someone placing an order, that sounds like an accurate number. Sometimes I hear people order things to drink that I had no idea were even possible. When there are too many choices, sometimes there can be a delay as the person tries to process the information and make a

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02:14

The Lesser Used Functions

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/01/10

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03:25

Adding The Right Value

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/01/08

I caught this post about a career presentation from Kendra Little and it resonated a bit with me. The summary of the post (it's a bit long) is that there is valuable work that supports and benefits a team of people, called glue work. However, glue work isn't necessarily technical and it isn't necessarily recognized as valuable by management. In fact, it might unintentionally lead you from a career in engineering to one in project management. I haven't been someone who has been marginalized in

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03:15

The Rise of Data Centers Centers

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/01/06

For the last few years, we've seen no shortage of cloud migration stories and felt pressure from management who wanted to migrate our systems to the cloud. It seems that almost everyone I speak to has a story of having to move a system out of their owned or leased data center into a public cloud from some vendor. A lot of this is the movement of VMs from one place to another, which has me scratching my head. If we're just running VMs, surely we can do this cheaper in our own data center. Perhaps,

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