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5 Things Every DBA Should NOT Do

February 22, 2011 by John Sansom 15 Comments

Stop Sign

Earlier in the month I shared with you 10 Things That Every DBA Should Do and so it only seems natural to also consider some things that every Database Administrator should NOT be doing right. I’m going to let you in on a little secret here, I have actually done some of these things myself once […]

Filed Under: Administration, SQLServerCentral Syndication, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Indexes, Query Optimisation, ShrinkDB, Sysadmin

10 Things Every DBA Should Do

February 8, 2011 by John Sansom 7 Comments

Recently I spoke about how The Best Database Administrators Automate Everything, as well as Document Everything and this got me to thinking in general about things that every Database Administrator (DBA) should be doing. No two Database Administration jobs are the same that’s for sure but there are definitely things that I believe every DBA […]

Filed Under: Administration, SQLServerCentral Syndication, SQLServerPedia Syndication Tagged With: Backups, Baseline, Indexes, Monitoring, Query Tuning, Testing

The Definitive Introduction to SQL Server Indexes

June 29, 2009 by John Sansom Leave a Comment

It normally is not my style to write a blog post solely about a particular article someone else has published. Typically I just go ahead and add quality resources to the SQL Server Resources area of this site that I have either found myself or had recommended to me. In this case however an exception […]

Filed Under: Administration, Index Optimisation, Performance Tuning Tagged With: Indexes

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