Forrest Shares Stuff

You are a Senior DBA with 20 years of experience.

Early in Covid, even before the mass awareness set in, I remember reading some blog posts from the rationalist community.

I like fast databases.

Take a look at this.

In case you haven’t heard, moral decline is everywhere.

I’ve read it repeatedly, columnstore key lookups are extra slow.

I love how there are lots of little things to SQL Server – mostly ignored details that only sometimes matter but make sense when you stare at them.

Did you know that indexes with included columns have less efficient logging?

“It’s a very short blocking phase” they said.

The common corporate amoeba floats around, grasping at revenue, customers, and other nutrients with ciliated pseudopods.