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Accelerate Query Performance With AI Query Assist: Intelligent Tuning, Built Securely
April 2, 2026
Owen Murphy

In this post, Owen Murphy breaks down AI Query Assist, explaining how it combines execution plans with generative AI to rewrite slow SQL.

We look at why AI Query Assist matters for DBAs and developers who want faster, more reliable performance tuning without sacrificing security.

Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap
March 27, 2026
Kevin Kline

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.

Finding the Sweet Spot Between Innovation and Optimization
April 8, 2024
Melanie Achard
Balancing growth and performance optimization is a constant tension in all aspects of business. This is particularly true in DevOps, where there’s a drive to release more features faster to…
The Future of SQL Sentry
September 15, 2023
Suril Jasani
This month, I celebrate 11 years of working on SQL Sentry. I started as employee number 15  at SentryOne and then moved through various roles in support, customer success, and…
What Are Microservices? Advantages and Examples
February 9, 2022
Joey D'Antoni
As enterprise applications changed over time to serve different business needs and computer systems evolved from the monolithic architecture of mainframes into client-server and distributed systems, mechanisms for communications between…
Benefits of DevOps
January 19, 2022
Thomas LaRock
The term DevOps has taken the IT world by storm. Though every business incorporates DevOps practices differently—and even defines the term differently—doing so can offer businesses several benefits. In this article, we’ll…
Building and Monitoring Robust Automatic Deployments
June 16, 2021
Meagan Longoria
Have you ever heard the mantra “Don’t deploy on Fridays?” There are blog posts, tweets, and t-shirts shouting this slogan to anyone who will listen. Maybe your organization follows this…
What Agencies Should Consider Regarding Multi-Cloud Implementations
May 10, 2021
Brandon Shopp

Multi-cloud architectures have long been hyped for their performance, reliability, and cost savings—and adoption is soaring.

CostOps: The Overlooked Developer Responsibility
May 3, 2021
Patrick Hubbard
Developers are the kingmakers. Millions of decisions made by tens of thousands of developers are ultimately responsible for the triumph or tragedy of IT. Developers for commercial vendors, open-source projects,…
Bridging Data and DevOps: Is Your DevOps Incomplete?
March 16, 2021
John Welch
DevOps has great potential; when it’s done right, it offers organizations improved collaboration, quick innovation, better quality, and shorter delivery cycles. But the reality is that some businesses don’t carry…