What is a sherpa?
A wiry, tough, well-adapted Nepali who guides, watches over, and ensures the success of ambitious mountain climbers.
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Experiences, observations, tips, white papers, and presentations meant to help those attempting to scale the learning curve of database design and development.
We hope to ensure your work is fun and efficient, avoiding the pits and traps we fell into during decades of work as software engineers, data modelers, database engineers, performance tuners, and enterprise data architects.
Our content should assist you in making your work products solid, flexible, and performant. In a nutshell, this blog is about giving back and sharing knowledge. If you’d like to be a db1 Sherpa editor as well, authoring articles for the blog, feel free to use the email button below. Let’s talk!
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