12 Days to GO Since learning I was selected to speak at SQL Saturday Phoenix; I have been preparing all my material, practicing my presentation, getting feedback from the SQL community. This has been a overwhelming, but I am looking past all of the anxiety and focusing on the excitement for the opportunity. A couple Read More …
From the creators of the wildly popular dbatools open source PowerShell project comes dbachecks. Harnessing the power of the Pester framework and the amazing PSFrameWork module by Fred Weinmann (t) , the team has put together a module that compiles the checklists that all good DBA’s should be performing on their environments. This list of checks Read More …
For this week I am going to go through a process that I developed and am pretty proud of. We the DBA Team are responsible for getting data in to our Integration environments and higher. We do not trust the developers with this responsibility as they would probably break something. Issue Recently one of our Read More …
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 …
