Michael Paycer

Michael Paycer on X / Twitter

Michael Paycer · SQL Server DBA & Developer

Follow Michael Paycer on X/Twitter for SQL Server notes, database consulting updates, performance tuning topics, HA/DR, reporting, and development-related content.

Professional Profile

What I post on X

I'm a SQL Server DBA and Developer in St. Cloud, Minnesota. On X/Twitter I share short, practical SQL Server notes — performance tuning finds, Always On and HA/DR tips, migration lessons, and the occasional war story from 20 years of production databases.

For the deeper material, the writing lives here on the site — start with Cloud & Automation or the personal side — or get in touch about a project.

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SQL Server topics I write about

The notes tend to cover the everyday realities of running Microsoft SQL Server: performance tuning and query optimization, reading execution plans, taming parameter sniffing, tempdb and wait statistics, and diagnosing blocking and deadlocks. On the infrastructure side, I post about Always On Availability Groups, high availability and disaster recovery, and SQL Server migrations to Azure SQL and AWS RDS.

Longer write-ups live on the site — see articles, case studies & lessons learned, the SQL Server reading list, or my SQL Server consulting services. Need help on a specific problem? Get in touch.