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I'm a DBA learning DevOps in the open. This is where I document the DBA craft, break things in the HomeLab before production can, and offer the occasional opinion from someone who's been in IT since before the cloud was a metaphor.

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5th November 2024
DBA & SQL

PASS Day 2 - Postgres Fundamentals for SQL folks precon This session was taught by Grant Fritchey and Ryan Booz, which is a great match up....

Day 1 of PASS Summit 2024 — a full-day query optimization precon with Brent Ozar covering SQL Server 2019/2022 features, ORM handling, and parameter sniffing.

Heading to PASS Data Summit 2024 for the second time — this year with a plan for networking, pacing, and not burning out as an introvert.

I think I needed that Proxmox volume... I mentioned in a that I have been working on my Homelab and that I use Proxmox to host my Linux Co...

The homelab journey started like this Last year I bought a Mac Studio to replace my six year old desktop. Originally the desktop started of...

It has been a long time since I've sat down to write a blog post. Then again, it has been a long time since I have done anything with this b...

So many things... Looks like the past couple of years have really taken a toll on me, especially the last four. When we made the move fro...

24th November 2021
Perspective

Reflecting on the Past Year This year has been a wild ride, to say the least. I've been crazy busy and seriously overworked. It wasn't until...

2022 was a whirlwind of changes, a total hot mess if you ask me. I had high hopes for it to be better than 2020, but boy was I wrong. So muc...

Don't forget to check permissions Here’s a quick post to remind myself and others, to check ALL of the permissions when working with replic...