Senior SQL Server DBA with 14+ years in large, mission-critical environments. Bringing a cross-platform edge to every project with substantial Oracle tuning experience.
- Microsoft Data Platform MVP
- Data Platform MCSE
- OSCP | PNPT | Combining deep database expertise with an attacker's perspective on security
- Author of PSBlitz, an open-source SQL Server diagnostic tool
- I write about SQL Server, InfoSec, and PowerShell at vladdba.com
- PSBlitz - A PowerShell-based tool that outputs SQL Server health, security, and performance diagnostics data to either Excel or HTML, and saves execution plans and deadlock graphs as .sqlplan and .xdl files
- SQL-Server-Scripts - Various T-SQL/PowerShell SQL Server-related scripts
- Spoke at Data Saturday Croatia 2026 on heap costs in SQL Server
- Contributor to Brent Ozar's First Responder Kit
- Querying Shodan with SQL Server's sp_invoke_external_rest_endpoint
- Internet-exposed SQL Server instances and where to find them
- T-SQL Tuesday #200 - things that make me instantly think a query is bad
- From Attendee to Speaker: My first Data Saturday session
- PSBlitz 6.1.0: new backup and security checks, Excel improvements
- Script to delete extra tempdb data files
- Setting up a Windows Server 2019 VM in VirtualBox
- My SQL Server Management Studio 22 configuration
- Setting up a Windows Server 2022 VM in VirtualBox
- Fix "certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted" in dbatools





