On Tuesday of this week, at 4:45PM I received an e-mail that I was not expecting! It was only 12 days ago that I submitted my first ever session abstract to speak at SQL Saturday Phoenix. Since this was my first go round I was not really sure on the timeline on when decisions Read More …
Two weeks ago I was on-call and at 4:45AM Saturday morning my phone rang and the dreaded contact “NOC” was on the screen. After finding my phone and answering, the NOC technician explained that we had a Tier 2 server that had the log drive out of space. After letting them know I would check Read More …
This past Friday I was browsing the Twitter-verse and noticed in my notifications column that Shane O’Neil (b | t) had sent a challenge to Jason Squires (b | t) and myself. And always being up for a challenge I said I was in before even researching what I was signing up for. Further research Read More …
I know it is a weird time to be putting out a blog post. But I have 28 hours to keep my goal of 52 blogs in 52 weeks going. You say it is only week two and you are this far behind. This week was hectic since I was on-call at work. So I Read More …
Problem It has been a little over a year since I ran across the community that is dbatools. Not in my career have I seen an online community of professionals been this welcoming and helpful to people on a daily basis. dbatools is a collection of PowerShell functions that makes the life of a Microsoft Read More …
I am excited to participate in my second T-SQL Tuesday. My preference is to do this monthly, but the topic is not always in my wheelhouse so I have to skip them. However, this months topic is one I like to talk about: Learning. For 2017 I started the year getting introduced to dbatools and Read More …
It is no secret that I have become a Fan-Boy of the open source community project dbatools. I have been in IT for over 20 years and have worked with different scripting languages for performing tasks. In recent years, I have “hacked” together PowerShell scripts I found online to accomplish specific tasks. dbatools takes DBA Read More …
Recently I had the opportunity to attend my second SQL Skills training course. I was honored that my company felt it was worth while for my career growth to send me to such a top notch training class. This was my second time to attend a SQL Skills training event. The first one was hosted Read More …
☺☺ Please forgive me for the title, but that is an inside joke between my wife and I ☺☺ This post is going to recap my goal setting process and mid year review or how I am progressing at the half way point in 2017. Goal Setting Process: I looked at how I approached life Read More …
In this final edition of my “PowerShell Learning series” I will cover how PowerShell has improved my DBA skills as well as how it has put me on some new tracks of learning. Previous Posts: Part 1 of 4 – PowerShell Learning for the SQL DBA Part 2 of 4 – PowerShell Learning – SQL Migration for Read More …
