Brian Nielsen

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"To be part of proactive teams, find new solutions and improving old ones to help achieve healthy revenue. Expand my own knowledge, gain experiences and draw benefit from them, all to be able to conduct business more efficient and doing so while having fun"

Skills

+ 20 years

Windows Enterprise servers

Windows NT 3.51...2019
+ 20 years

Microsoft SQL Server

Admin, internals, indexing, development, performance, VLDBs...
+ 20 years

Environments

Server management, automation, performance, scripting, HW-knowledge...

Interests

Technologies

TSQL, DB-design, virtualization and containers, HADR, performance, PostgreSQL...

Cloudtech

VMware, AWS, GCP and Azure - DB in clouds

Ways of learning

Conferences, blogs, writing notes, tests, edu-sites, spinning up stuff, "fail fast - fail often"
+

20

Migration projects

Analyzes, planning, implementing and followup of large highly available production instances

60

%

Performance and maintenance

Maintaining production environments, deploying new versions and patches, tuning queries and evaluating indexes

20

%

Analyses

Knowing the data, finding trends, finding ID-fields about to be exhausted, indexing performance

20

%

Plan/Learn

Leading DB-related tasks within the organisation such as meetings, planned upgrades, incidents, learn new skills and testing new tech with developers