Three Reasons RDS SQL Server Is Better Than Azure SQL Managed Instance

While every managed database service has high points and low points, there are three things that make RDS for SQL Server shine in comparison to Azure SQL Managed Instance: options for a higher memory:vCPU ratio, a well documented API that works beautifully with python, and fast and effective customer support that isn’t painful to use.

It’s just three things, but they make a huge difference. And these are three things that Microsoft can, and SHOULD, really fix for their cloud database services.

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AI Will Eliminate DBA Jobs Faster Than You Think

I listened to ‘Surviving the A.I. Endgame’ this weekend and realized: I’ve become one of the believers that AI advances are very likely to completely change tech and knowledge roles as we know them over the next 10 years. This is going to dramatically shrink the workforce across MANY roles (and many of those impacted will be outside of the tech sector). It isn’t that people won’t be needed anymore, but far fewer people will be needed. Including people with database administrator (DBA) roles like mine.

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