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Automation

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]

Latest Posts

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]

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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]

Lion Roaring

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]

MDW Dashboard Report

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]

Production execution plan

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

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]

Bench Press

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]

Powershell

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]

EatThatFrog

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]

Powershell

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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