Steve Jones from Redgate and SQLServerCentral.com recently put out an interesting challenge: A day in the life of a DBA. The thought is that there is not a lot of discussion around what IT professionals and DBA’s in general do day to day. For the upcoming generation there is a large gap of knowledge out Read More …
Steve Jones from Redgate and SQLServerCentral.com recently put out an interesting challenge: A day in the life of a DBA. The thought is that there is not a lot of discussion around what IT professionals and DBA’s in general do day to day. For the upcoming generation there is a large gap of knowledge out Read More …
Steve Jones from Redgate and SQLServerCentral.com recently put out an interesting challenge: A day in the life of a DBA. The thought is that there is not a lot of discussion around what IT professionals and DBA’s in general do day to day. For the upcoming generation there is a large gap of knowledge out Read More …
Steve Jones from Redgate and SQLServerCentral.com recently put out an interesting challenge: A day in the life of a DBA. The thought is that there is not a lot of discussion around what IT professionals and DBA’s in general do day to day. For the upcoming generation there is a large gap of knowledge out Read More …
My second SQL Saturday presentation is officially complete. This past weekend was SQL Saturday #734 in my hometown of Dallas, Tx. To say I was nervous to present locally is an understatement. I tell myself the reason I picked Phoenix as my first attempt at public speaking is because if things did not go Read More …
Are you a dbatools enthusiast like I am? Have you been introduced to the greatness? Well here is hoping you said yes to both questions and you are using dbatools on a daily basis. dbatools has changed the daily routine of hundreds of DBA’s around the world. You do not have to be a Read More …
Issue Recently, I was forwarded a request from our Product Support team to prepare the database for a third party application to be sent to the vendor for troubleshooting. This particular database has TDE enabled, so I figured that is easy, let me knock that out. So I proceeded to restore the database to one Read More …
It is that time again to rave about dbachecks! This week I put in to action automated checks that run via SQL Agent for different scenarios. Issue In my environment I have 300+ servers from development to production. I do not just want to run all checks on all servers as that would take forever and Read More …
Last weekend it happened, I performed my first speaking engagement at a SQL Saturday. Over the past six weeks a have felt a range of emotions after clicking that submit button on the Speakers Session Submission page. I have already done a couple of posts about getting selected and my plan to preparation. With Read More …
Have you embraced the awesomeness that is dbachecks? dbachecks is a great framework that was built to check your SQL Environment for best practices and alert you to out of compliance items that can be acted upon. I have recently been building a demo to introduce the tool to my work team. While doing this Read More …
