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Shand Glenn

Shand is a 15 year veteran of IT. Over that time, he has worked with data in mainframe and distributed systems. His passion is disaster recovery, disaster avoidance and business continuity. Planning, testing, and implementing disaster plans, for MS SQL Server has become his passion. Having lived though several disasters in his career, both manmade and acts of God, Shand is prepared to take on whatever can be thrown at him from a disaster perspective.

The Latest Posts Featuring Shand Glenn

The High-Performance DBA: Breaking the Burnout Cycle in Modern Database Teams

In this article, Kevin Kline introduces The High-Performance DBA webcast series, drawing on insights from our recent State of Database Report to explain why DBA burnout is rising and how teams can move beyond constant reactivity.

April 1, 2026
Database
The High-Performance DBA: Breaking the Burnout Cycle in Modern Database Teams
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Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap
March 27, 2026
Database

Over the past 15 years, Agile and DevOps have accelerated application delivery, enabling faster, more reliable releases. Yet the database layer often remains a blind spot for observability and performance monitoring.

In this article, Kevin Kline shows why closing the database observability gap is critical to improving performance, efficiency, and resilience for DBAs, developers, and the businesses that depend on their data.