About the Author

I’m a SQL Server DBA working in large-scale production environments, focused on reliability, performance, and keeping systems running when they matter most. Most of my day to day work sits around operations, incident response, platform engineering, and automation, supporting SQL Server workloads that need to stay available and predictable under real pressure.

This site is a collection of practical DBA notes I’ve built up over years of working with SQL Server. It’s written for people who already run systems, not for tutorials or marketing. The posts here reflect how I actually work, what I check first, and the things that tend to cause problems in production if they’re misunderstood or ignored. For more background and non-DBA writing, see peterwhyte.com.