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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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03:35

Monoliths and Microservices

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/03/24

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03:06

More Supply Chain Attacks

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2025/03/21

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03:08

Lower Your Attack Surface Area

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/03/19

It's no surprise that our systems are under attack by all sorts of criminals. Some organized, some opportunistic, some just aiming for vandalism. We need to protect our digital systems to prevent issues, and a part of better protection is reducing the number of places that are vulnerable. Those places include databases. This article discusses the rising costs of data breaches and the increased frequency of attacks. It also examines the increasing number of regulations that are demanding proof of

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02:21

Tracking Table Sizes

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2025/03/07

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03:34

The Job Outlook for Database Professionals

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2025/03/05

This is a strange time for many technology professionals and their employment. It seems many organizations have open positions and are struggling to fill those slots with qualified candidates (one look at this). At the same time, many other organizations have followed the large technology firms (FAANG, MSFT) and laid off large numbers of their staff in the last year. At the same time, with the hype and rapid growth of GenAI systems, we have companies that are looking to machines to fill some of

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02:57

A Poor Data Model

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2025/03/03

Recently there was some online complaints about social security numbers (SSNs) in the US being duplicated and re-used by individuals. This is really political gamesmanship, so ignore the political part. Just know that social security numbers appear to be one of the contenders used in many data models. I found a good piece about how SSNs aren't unique, and have a mess of problems. Despite this, many people seem to want to use SSNs as a primary or alternate key in their database systems. They also

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01:56

Your Biggest Data Model Complaints

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/02/28

I've been working with databases for a long time and there are no shortage of things I've seen other people do that I don't like. Sometimes I shake my head a little. Sometimes I might groan inwardly (hopefully not aloud), and sometimes I might make an effort to convince someone else to do something differently. Sometimes I'm really annoyed (or angry) and don't even know what to do. Read the rest of Your Biggest Data Model Complaints

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03:15

Why Not Use AI?

Voice of the DBA ·

2025/02/26

Erin Stellato, a program manager at Microsoft, asked a very interesting question on LinkedIn: "why do you *not* want a Copilot in SSMS?" That got me to stop and think a minute. Why don't we want to use an AI to help us? It's a good question, given the hype and (maybe) potential of the technology. While it might not help you now, or with your specific thing, it might help others, so are there good reasons not to use AI technologies, like the GenAI LLMs? Read the rest of Why Not Use AI?

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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

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2025/02/21

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03:30

Is Ransomware Fading?

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2025/02/19

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02:48

How Much Linux Do You Need?

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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

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2025/02/10

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02:19

Unreliable Narrators

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2025/02/07

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03:38

Building a Data Center

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2025/02/05

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02:21

Words vs Data

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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

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2025/01/27

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