kyle Hailey
Auto_explain on Google Cloud SQL (GCP)
Getting Started with Google Cloud SQL and Auto Explain for Performance Monitoring Introduction: After three decades of experience with...
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kyle Hailey
- Apr 5
- 1 min
Midjourney's Describe command
Are you tired of manually describing images or struggling to come up with the right words to describe an image? Midjourney has come up...
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kyle Hailey
- Apr 5
- 5 min
Midjourney's New "Permutations": Create Limitless Combinations with Image Prompts and {Braces}
Midjourney's's new functionality allows users to create unique image combinations by giving it an image prompt and using braces {} to...
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kyle Hailey
- Apr 5
- 2 min
AI-Powered Persuasion: The Dark Side of Intelligent Technology
There is a concern that AI could be used to influence or manipulate people for commercial, political, or ideological purposes. This is...
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kyle Hailey
- Apr 5
- 3 min
Reining in the AI Revolution: Why We Must Act Now to Safeguard Our Future
As much as I think AI is incredible and I want unfettered access to it, it seems obvious that it needs to be regulated quickly. As a...
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kyle Hailey
- Mar 17
- 2 min
psql: Guardrails between PROD and TEST
This took way longer than I wanted But I've got access to Prod and to Dev I haven't gotten automated changes and change logging in yet...
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kyle Hailey
- Mar 9
- 2 min
Stability.ai & Future of AI imaging
Stability.ai bought clipdrop Stability AI Makes its First Acquisition in a Generative AI Startup, Init ML Somehow, ClipDrop is supposed...
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kyle Hailey
- Sep 20, 2022
- 2 min
New works by John Williams Waterhouse “discovered”
Is there an artist you liked, but would love to have seen more works by? I always liked John William Waterhouse and wished there were...
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kyle Hailey
- Jun 30, 2022
- 2 min
DataDog – the marriage of ASH, Query Stats and UI
I’m so happy to be working at Datadog ( and we are hiring so ping me if interested. Looking for Python developers who are interested in...
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kyle Hailey
- Jun 29, 2022
- 4 min
Are some MySQL wait events actually CPU time ?
Sure, wait event times in any database will include some CPU time, though ideally it should be minimal. Waits should be instrumented as...
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kyle Hailey
- Jun 22, 2022
- 1 min
JDBC Request: Cannot load JDBC driver class’com.mysql.jdbc.Driver’ solution
Just quick post to document a troublesome error when running Jmeter on Mysql JDBC Request: Cannot load JDBC driver...
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kyle Hailey
- Apr 15, 2022
- 3 min
Setting up Always ON (SQL Server)
There is a great little docker setup that starts Always On (SQL Servers instance replication not to be confused with their article i.e....
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kyle Hailey
- Apr 13, 2022
- 4 min
introducing network latency on Docker (SQL Server Always On testing)
I am testing out Always On replication on SQL Server with a cool docker setup that includes primary and secondary https://github.com/rafa...
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kyle Hailey
- Mar 25, 2022
- 11 min
MySQL : events_waits_current – who is waiting and who is on CPU
Anyone familiar with Oracle performance tuning knows about ASH , aka active session history. ASH saves a history of every session that is...
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kyle Hailey
- Mar 24, 2022
- 12 min
MySQL -> what to do with NESTING_EVENT_ID
How does one use NESTING_EVENT_ID? Below I’ve selected from events_waits_history_long for a single thread, but none of the ...
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kyle Hailey
- Mar 23, 2022
- 6 min
MySQL waits and CPU
Question: how do I know that one user is waiting for a lock and another user is burning CPU on MySQL? i.e. how can I create active...
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kyle Hailey
- Jul 13, 2021
- 1 min
Postgres performance gone south but nothing changed !
Postgres seems pretty cool as open source databases go. I’m finding a much greater affinity for Postgres than say MySQL. On the other...
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kyle Hailey
- Jun 19, 2020
- 2 min
Covering Indexes in Postgres
Covering indexes are where all the columns needed are in the index and, in theory, only the index needs to be accessed. This seemingly...
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kyle Hailey
- May 22, 2020
- 2 min
Granularity impact on visualization
The longer the timeline we show in the graph, either the more points we show or the larger granularity we use. For example if I show 1...
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kyle Hailey
- Mar 30, 2020
- 14 min
Where to add Index on Postgres
Summary Goal in this post is to layout a methodology that can be implemented to scan the explain plans and identify opportunities to...
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