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Database Monitoring & Performance Tuning (pg_stat / slow queries)

Database Administration skills for the Database Administrator (DBA) career path. Filter, model, and reason about the real data this role works with every day.

Professional Senior priority 1 Sandbox & Simulation Sandbox & Interactive Quiz

What you'll learn

Database Administration skills for the Database Administrator (DBA)

Building on Table Partitioning & Sharding Strategies, this lesson focuses on the practical Database Administration toolkit a working Database Administrator (DBA) reaches for on the job.

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Sandbox preview

Try the first query

-- Database Administration — your first interaction
SELECT example, value
FROM database-administration_dataset
WHERE priority = '1'
AND career = 'Database Administrator (DBA)';

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Sprint-1 stub

This is the Sprint-1 stub for ai.careerplane.technology.dba.database-administration.monitoring-tuning. The fully-generated topic page (sandbox + quiz + AI hints + interactive tooling) lands in Sprint-2 at static/content/technology/Database Administrator (DBA)/Database Administration/Database Monitoring & Performance Tuning (pg_stat / slow queries)/index.html (per arch/memo.md → D-2026-04-22-13). The //go:embed all:static directive auto-serves it on the next container rebuild — no server-code change needed.

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