Ahmad Drshen is a senior database professional with 15+ years of IT experience, specializing in enterprise database architecture, performance optimization, and high-availability systems across SQL Server and modern NoSQL platforms.
7 articles from this blog
A guide to monitoring SingleStore database clusters using the sdb-admin toolkit, covering status checks, resource usage, and troubleshooting.
A technical guide on configuring TLS/SSL encryption for MongoDB, covering certificate generation and server setup.
Essential Linux skills for SQL Database Administrators to improve efficiency and marketability in modern IT environments.
A guide for SQL Server DBAs on using Ansible to automate database administration tasks like installation, backup, and user management.
Explains how oversized VARCHAR columns in SQL Server can negatively impact query performance by inflating memory grant requests.
A guide to using SQL Server's SWITCH operation to quickly modify schema on massive, non-partitioned tables with billions of rows.
A guide to using the new 'Compare ShowPlan' feature in SQL Server Management Studio 2017 to analyze and contrast SQL execution plans.
