A Junior DBA’s Field Guide to This Series: What Your Mentor Forgot to Explain
A companion guide for junior DBAs navigating the ALTER DBA ADD AGENT series. Maps the vocabulary walls, production safety gaps, and confidence calibration challenges that experienced readers won’t even notice.
How This Series Was Written: A DBA and an AI Walk Into a Terminal
This entire blog series was co-written with an AI coding agent. Here’s the transparent, behind-the-scenes story of how it was produced.
The DBA’s Blind Spot: Why AI Coding Agents Are Coming for Your Workflow
AI coding agents like GitHub Copilot CLI aren’t just autocomplete they read your files, run commands, and iterate. Here’s why DBAs can’t afford to ignore them.
ALTER DBA ADD AGENT: Practical AI for Database Professionals
A practical guide to using AI coding agents for SQL Server database administration. 18 posts covering T-SQL, monitoring, security, migrations, and more.
Part 2: When the AI Code Reviewer Finds Bugs the Optimizer Didn’t
In Part 1, I walked through an interactive session with GitHub Copilot CLI where we optimized a production T-SQL function — cutting memory grants by 80% and logical reads by 73%. I thought we were…
Can GitHub Copilot Optimize Your T-SQL? I Put It to the Test
I’ve been curious about how well AI coding assistants handle real-world T-SQL optimization — not textbook examples, but production code with system DMVs, Availability Groups, and windowed functions. So I pointed GitHub Copilot CLI at…