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Database Administration with ADMN

January 2026 | 8 min read

Database administration has always been one of those tasks that requires you to remember specific syntax, know the right commands, and understand each database system's quirks. Whether it's MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB, you're dealing with different CLIs, different commands, and different configuration files. ADMN changes that.

The Traditional Approach

Managing databases usually means one of two things: using a GUI tool like phpMyAdmin, DBeaver, or pgAdmin, or working directly in the command line. GUI tools are convenient for browsing data and running quick queries, but they fall short when you need to handle server-level tasks-replication setup, backup automation, performance tuning, or user management across multiple databases.

The command line gives you full control, but you need to remember the syntax. Creating a user in MySQL is different from PostgreSQL. Setting up replication requires following documentation step by step. And if you manage multiple database servers, you're repeating the same work on each one.

How ADMN Handles It

With ADMN, you describe what you need in plain English. It connects to your server, figures out what database system you're running, and executes the right commands. You don't need to remember if it's CREATE USER or createuser, or whether grants go before or after the user creation.

Database Setup and Configuration

Setting up a new database with proper users and permissions is straightforward:

  • "Install PostgreSQL 15 and configure it to accept remote connections"
  • "Create a database called analytics with a dedicated user that has full access"
  • "Set up MySQL with a 2GB buffer pool and enable slow query logging"
  • "Install MongoDB and create an admin user with authentication enabled"

ADMN handles the installation, configuration file edits, service restarts, and firewall rules. You describe the end state, it figures out the steps.

Backup and Recovery

Database backups are critical but tedious to set up properly. Most people either skip them or set up something basic that doesn't scale. With ADMN:

  • "Set up daily backups for all MySQL databases to /backups with 7-day retention"
  • "Create a pg_dump script that runs every 6 hours and uploads to S3"
  • "Configure mongodump to back up the production database nightly"
  • "Restore the users database from yesterday's backup"

It handles the cron jobs, compression, rotation, and cloud uploads. For restores, it can pull the right backup and run the recovery without you hunting through backup directories.

User and Permission Management

Database permissions get complicated fast. Different apps need different access levels, and you want to follow least-privilege principles without spending hours on grant statements:

  • "Create a read-only user for the reporting team on the sales database"
  • "Give the app user INSERT, UPDATE, SELECT on all tables but no DELETE"
  • "Set up a replication user with the minimum required privileges"
  • "Show me all users and their permissions on the production database"

ADMN translates your intent into the correct GRANT statements for whatever database you're running.

Performance Troubleshooting

When your database is slow, finding the cause usually means digging through logs, checking query plans, and reviewing system metrics. ADMN can do that investigation for you:

  • "Why is the database running slow right now?"
  • "Show me the slowest queries from the last hour"
  • "Check if there are any blocking queries or deadlocks"
  • "Analyze the orders table and suggest missing indexes"

It'll check active connections, slow query logs, table statistics, and system resources, then give you a clear picture of what's happening.

Replication and High Availability

Setting up database replication is one of those tasks that's straightforward in theory but easy to mess up. Configuration has to be exact, and one wrong setting means your replica won't sync:

  • "Set up this server as a read replica for the primary at 10.0.1.5"
  • "Configure PostgreSQL streaming replication with automatic failover"
  • "Check replication lag on all replica servers"
  • "Promote the replica to primary"

ADMN handles the configuration on both ends, sets up the replication user, initializes the data sync, and verifies everything is working.

Schema Changes and Migrations

Making schema changes on production databases requires care. You need to check for locks, understand the impact, and sometimes do things in stages:

  • "Add a nullable email column to the customers table"
  • "Create an index on orders.created_at without blocking writes"
  • "Show me the current schema for the products table"
  • "What tables reference the users table with foreign keys?"

For operations that could lock tables, ADMN will warn you and suggest safer alternatives like online DDL or pt-online-schema-change for MySQL.

Multi-Database Management

If you're running multiple database servers-dev, staging, production, or sharded setups-ADMN's parallel execution is useful. You can run the same operation across all of them:

  • "Check disk space on all database servers"
  • "Update the max_connections setting on all PostgreSQL instances"
  • "Create the new analytics user on all MySQL servers"
  • "Show me replication status across all replicas"

Supported Databases

ADMN works with the databases you're probably already running:

  • MySQL / MariaDB - setup, users, backups, replication, performance tuning
  • PostgreSQL - including extensions, streaming replication, and vacuum management
  • MongoDB - replica sets, sharding, user authentication, backups
  • Redis - configuration, persistence settings, cluster setup
  • MS SQL Server - setup, backup, manage, cluster etc.
  • SQLite - backups, integrity checks, basic management

When This Helps Most

ADMN is particularly useful for database work when:

  • You manage databases but it's not your full-time job
  • You work with multiple database systems and can't remember all the syntax
  • You need to set up proper backups but don't want to spend a day on it
  • You're troubleshooting performance issues and want faster answers
  • You manage multiple database servers and need to keep them consistent

It's not a replacement for a dedicated DBA on complex systems, but for most teams, it handles 90% of what you need without requiring you to become a database specialist.

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