Jonathan Kehayias

The High Cost of Poor Database Performance (It’s Not Just Monetary)

03/14/23 What is the cost of database performance for businesses today? The very shocking reality is most owners have absolutely no idea. In fact, I would even go so far as to say …

How Database Observability Increases Operational Reliability

02/23/23 Early on in my career as a DBA, I began to realize I wasn’t a Database Administrator as much as the Default Blame Acceptor for nearly any application problem. Let’s face i…

Can an Application Exist Today Without a Database?

12/22/22 As a data professional, I often think about all the things around me generating data and consider where this data is ultimately being used. Have you ever taken a minute to…

Pros and Cons of Horizontal vs. Vertical Scaling

08/17/22 Have you ever dealt with an application workload suddenly increasing and the demand on SQL Server begins to increase exponentially as a result? Maybe you’ve never had one …