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The Best Database Administrators Automate Everything
Do you understand the value of your time? I mean really understand it. Time is your absolute number one most valuable asset. Once it's gone, that's it, gone forever. As a Database Administrator (DBA) your skills, services, expertise and ultimately your time will always be in demand. You can only ever deliver on a finite amount of time, that's just … [Read More]
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The Secret to Keeping Your Cool Like an Experienced Production DBA
Your actions as a Database Administrator can make the difference between a disaster being a minor nuisance or a major problem. Things can and will go wrong in your environments. Even the greatest software contains bugs and hardware fails, … [Read More]
Reminder – Email Subscribers – Action Required
Good Morning chaps! A glorious Summers day here today in London. This is a super quick post to remind you that following Google's decision to withdraw investment in the FeedBurner platform, I will be migrating to the AWeber broadcasting … [Read More]
The World’s Leaking Data
Right now someone is working extremely hard trying to steal customer data. As a Database Administrator it is YOU who is responsible for safeguarding the data in your database environments. Make no mistake, it is your Primary Responsibility as a … [Read More]
Your Community, Your Voice, Your Forum
For me, one of the most rewarding things about blogging are the conversations we have together. The opportunity to connect, share and grow with passionate people from all over the world is a great privilege. I've met so many wonderful people … [Read More]
What You Need To Bring to SQLBits
With only a few days to go before SQLBits kicks off, here's some last minute tips on what you need to bring to ensure you have a fantastic experience. Your Good Self This is priority number one people! If you put your name down on the list you … [Read More]
SQL Server Management Data Warehouse (MDW) – Why it Rocks
Ensuring excellent performance for users and customers is a high priority for Database Administrators. Today I want to share a free and easy way for you to get valuable insight into the performance of your Microsoft SQL Server instances. There … [Read More]
Implicit Conversions and Avoiding Them With Computed Columns
I recently encountered an interesting performance issue (due to implicit conversions) that I was able to solve using a lesser known technique and I wanted to share it with you here. A customer environment was suddenly receiving high CPU alarms and … [Read More]
How To Be An Expert At What You Do
Every successful company has them. They're the lifeblood of their organisations. Linchpins essential to getting things done and doing them extremely well. More commonly we know them as experts. Experts are always in popular demand and they come in … [Read More]
Career Growth and How You Can Achieve Explosive Results
Continued investment in your professional development for career growth is hard. It's also essential to being a successful Data Professional. You've got a lot of competing priorities, we all do, it goes with the territory of being good at what you … [Read More]
Restart the SQL Server Agent Service using PowerShell
Just a quick one today chaps, to show how you can restart the SQL Server Agent Service using PowerShell. Whilst covering the Production Ops Shift in our shop over the weekend I discovered that Database Mail had not been configured for the SQL … [Read More]
Multitasking A Ridiculous Workload – How I Do It
I don't! There's no such thing as multitasking. At least, not how most of us think about it…... Being successful as a Data Professional is hard. When you're good at what you do, you are in demand. If you're like most data professionals then … [Read More]
Script SQL Server Agent Jobs Using PowerShell
It’s that time of the month again, no not that one, it’s T-SQL Tuesday time and this weeks topic is hosted by Wayne Sheffield (blog|twitter). If you don’t know what T-SQL Tuesday is, you’re either new to the SQL community or have had your head … [Read More]
Overconfidence – How it Almost Cost Me and What You Can Do to Avoid It
It was early one morning and I was working on a production deployment to add a new Subscriber to an existing Publication. A routine task and one that I had performed many times before. With SSMS open in front of me, I highlighted the relevant … [Read More]
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