Check for corruption
If you work, or have worked, in a shop with lots of SQL servers then you either have, or will, experience an issue with storage. Like for instance you're storage controllers go down, knocking down your SQL instances. As we all know, this is a good way to corrupt...
read moreT-SQL Tuesday #92 – Learning lessons the hard way
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party that is the brain child of Adam Machanic (b/t). This month the blog party is being hosted by Raul Gonzalez (b/t). This month's topic is about lessons learned the hard way. Oh the things I have learned... I can't say that I have...
read moreFeeling refreshed
I mentioned in my last post that I was feeling a bit burnt out. Applying a lot of pressure to myself, feeling like I had to learn everything right now. I took 6 days off over the 4th of July weekend to go camping and a class on Fly Fishing. It put some things into...
read moreSummertime Blues
I mentioned last week that I was slacking off a bit, and now I just have to admit that I am just struggling to focus in general. By focus, I mean it's been really difficult to focus on training and being...
read moreSlacking off a bit
I have to admit, I have been slacking off a bit regarding get a post up on this blog. It's summer time, and well....I'll admit, my interests have been in other places. It's really hard to focus when its hot outside. It's also hard to focus when you'd rather be...
read moreChange Control
This post maybe a little "ranty". It seems in the past few months, I seem to have encountered a number of instances where changes to the database were made without a Change Request. Which has sparked a few conversations with developers over why there is a need for...
read moreLearning System
So after posting yesterday about struggling to keep up with SQL information, I got to thinking about how I could actually solve the problem instead of just complaining about it. I didn't come up with grand, earth shattering Kabooms. What I did come up with is a system...
read moreKeeping up with twitter, blogs, and training…
I admit, I slid a touch on my weekly blogging goal. In my defense however, work has been focused on a relocating a data center which hasn't gone quite as planned. So there has a been a couple of late nights. I've also been extremely busy working on training goals....
read moreHow I became a DBA
I'm not sure how I ended up on the Dallas DBAs website, but I came across their blog topic How I became a: ________ . The idea of posting up my story resonated with me, so I thought I would share. I apologize for the length in advanced, but it's hard to lay out a...
read moreT-SQL Tuesday #90 – Database Deployments
DevOps has been a buzzed word in the IT space for a while now. In case you are unfamiliar, DevOps is the conceptual marriage between Developers and IT Operations. The idea behind DevOps is to facilitate communication and collaboration via cross department integration, which is a crude way of saying the barriers between operations and developers are being broken down/stripped. While the concept of DevOps is not new, bringing databases into DevOps is (or rather, maybe to me it is).
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