How 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

How 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!
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SQL 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...
A 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
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PostgreSQL 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.
A 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.
A 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
Loved 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
The 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!
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Estupendo 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.
Patched 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.
The month's #DBA Corner column | The Cost of ‘Good Enough’ Data: Close Enough Is No Longer Good Enough
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The Data Quality Renaissance: Why Your AI is Only as Good as Your DBA
Valentina Release 18.1.1 intros CLI for Valentina Server and Studio database management suite.Improved Query Editor. New Valentina Forms navigation features. bit.ly/4xNC0nu
#CLI #dba
Después del parón de verano (¡qué calor!) me pongo de nuevo con los pinceles para terminar estos Pueblos del Mar que tenía a medias para el reglamento DBA.
Miniaturas en resina de la marca Red Copper Miniatures, con algunos extras para poder usar con el reglamento Triumph!.
120 degrees is what our data center thermometer read before we shut down the last server.
Two outages I'll never forget, and the second one ends with me yelling 'the server is on fire'. My T-SQL Tuesday #202 post:
PostgreSQL 14 reaches end of life on 12 November 2026. That is ten weeks from today.
14.24 is the current minor. There will be one more, and then no more security fixes, ever.