@percona.bsky.socialWe surveyed 300 DBAs, SREs and platform engineers on today’s database pressures. Across cost, performance, compliance and AI, one theme stood out: flexibility.
Read the report: https://bit.ly/46lg2w0
#OpenSource #Databases #DBA #SRE #AI #DatabaseManagement #AIReadiness
@brentec.bsky.socialLatest blog post about my most recent release of SQL Job Commander, version 0.2, highlighting the Historical Heatmap and Dashboard.
brentec.ca/blog/2026/09...
@percona.bsky.socialAmericor was battling weekly incidents and a MariaDB Galera environment requiring constant attention. With Percona, incidents fell to virtually none, freeing 30–40 engineering hours a month.
Read the story: https://bit.ly/4y6Gk1o
@percona.bsky.socialScottsdale, there’s still time to join us for dinner. 🍽️
On Oct. 6, join database leaders at Maple & Ash for dinner and practical conversations with Percona engineers.
Request a seat: https://bit.ly/4xhB8Hj
#Databases #OpenSource #Arizona #Scottsdale #TechEvents #DBA
@percona.bsky.socialHow well can today’s LLMs handle real DBA work?
@VadimTk tested LLMs on hands-on DBA tasks and found smaller models can often match larger ones at a fraction of the cost.
Results: https://bit.ly/3ThssSy
⏰ Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate is this Wednesday!
🎤 @nocentino.com | 📅 Wed, Sep 23 · 3:00 PM ET
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@brentec.bsky.socialSQL Job Commander version 0.2 has been released. Available now on the #Microsoft Store or directly from brentec.ca.
New to this version is the Historical Heatmap.
Complete release notes here: brentec.ca/index.php/SQ...
@hugovalters.bsky.socialA Cartesian join can fill your TEMP tablespace and halt production before you notice. How to find the query fast in Oracle:
https://www.valtersit.com/guides/databases/oracle-db_when_bad_queries_explode_your_temp_tablespace/
#oracle #database #dba
@robbie.databee.orgWenn euch die Folge gefällt: Eine Bewertung oder ein Like hilft uns enorm, den Podcast bekannter zu machen. Danke fürs Zuhören 🙏
#Oracle #Datenbank #DBA #Patching #ora2know (8/8)
@pgexperts.bsky.socialPostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 freezes Saturday, September 19 at 12:00 UTC. Beta 4 ships September 24.
Fifteen items are still open, and RC 1 and GA are both still TBD. If your workload found something in 19, file it before the freeze.
@craigmullins.bsky.socialA good #DBA works as a jack-of-all-trades... and a master of some!
🚀 Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate
🎤 Anthony Nocentino | 📅 Wed, Sep 23 · 3:00 PM ET
Build a DBA agent with MCP: availability, backups, security & observability, with humans in control.
@hugovalters.bsky.socialA Cartesian product in Oracle will fill your TEMP tablespace and stall production in minutes. How to find the query and fix it: https://www.valtersit.com/guides/databases/oracle-db_when_bad_queries_explode_your_temp_tablespace/ #Oracle #DBA #Database
@timglowa.bsky.socialLoved my DBA class this weekend. Organizations are political systems, not machines. Diagnosis and change hinge on coalitions, history, power and interests.
Business takeaway: problem ownership determines which intervention, structure or strategy can work. #haskayneBusinessSchool #DBA
@craigmullins.bsky.socialThe Big Book of #DBA Proverbs offers 52 proverbs -- handy for a consuming as a proverb-a-week for a year -- with a colorful graphic for each, along with the author or source of the proverb. Enjoy!
amzn.to/4gQRbX8
@makarren.eurosky.socialEstupendo día pasado en el club Atalaya Vigia de Zaragoza (que hacía tanto tiempo que no pasaba que no conocía el local actual) en su torneo de DBA 2.2 DBAtalayensis 2026 con 14 participantes.
Al final logré terminar 3º y premio de pintura con mis Pueblos del Mar.
@pgexperts.bsky.socialPatched to 18.6/17.11/16.15/15.19/14.24? You are not done.
Parallel GIN index builds could leave reltuples as Infinity or NaN in pg_class. Autovacuum and autoanalyze then skip the table. No error, no self-correction.
@craigmullins.bsky.socialThe month's #DBA Corner column | The Cost of ‘Good Enough’ Data: Close Enough Is No Longer Good Enough
www.dbta.com/Columns/DBA-...
@craigmullins.bsky.socialThe Data Quality Renaissance: Why Your AI is Only as Good as Your DBA