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There is a concern that AI could be used to influence or manipulate people for commercial, political, or ideological purposes. This is...

As much as I think AI is incredible and I want unfettered access to it, it seems obvious that it needs to be regulated quickly. As a...

This took way longer than I wanted But I've got access to Prod and to Dev I haven't gotten automated changes and change logging in yet...

Stability.ai bought clipdrop Stability AI Makes its First Acquisition in a Generative AI Startup, Init ML Somehow, ClipDrop is supposed...

Is there an artist you liked, but would love to have seen more works by? I always liked John William Waterhouse and wished there were...

I’m so happy to be working at Datadog ( and we are hiring so ping me if interested. Looking for Python  developers who are interested in...

Sure, wait event times in any database will include some CPU time, though ideally it should be minimal. Waits should be instrumented as...

Just  quick post to document a troublesome error when running Jmeter on Mysql JDBC Request: Cannot load JDBC driver...

There is a great little  docker setup that starts Always On (SQL Servers instance replication not to be confused with their article i.e....

I am testing out Always On replication on SQL Server with a cool docker setup that includes primary and secondary https://github.com/rafa...

Anyone familiar with Oracle performance tuning knows about ASH , aka active session history. ASH saves a history of every session that is...

How does one use  NESTING_EVENT_ID? Below I’ve selected from  events_waits_history_long for a single thread, but none of the ...

Question: how do I know that one user is waiting for a lock and another  user is burning CPU on MySQL? i.e. how can I create active...

Postgres seems pretty cool as open source databases go. I’m finding a much greater affinity for Postgres than say MySQL. On the other...

Covering indexes are where all the columns needed are in the index and, in theory, only the index needs to be accessed. This seemingly...

The longer the timeline we show in the graph, either the more points we show or the larger granularity we use. For example if I show 1...

Summary Goal in this post is to layout a methodology that can be implemented to scan the explain plans and identify opportunities to...

MySQL is simpler than the Oracle example  because MySQL only has Nested Loops and doesn’t have Hash Join. Here is the query, like on the...

Looking at ways to programmatically analyze explain plans to see if adding indexes would help. The analysis is straight forward for for...

Had and old export dump file I wanted to import into RDS. I first tried to use S3 as a hosting site for the .dmp file and...