by Garland MacNeill | Nov 6, 2018 |
I’ve been in IT a long time, coming up on 20 years. When I begin Yahoo was a titan, Excite was still around, and I felt snobbish with Ask Jeeves (they had a butler as a logo….hence the snobbish feel…) but the search engine that I ended up gravitating...
by Garland MacNeill | Jun 13, 2018 |
A couple of weeks ago I was given the task of helping a developer figure out why his Postgresql cluster wouldn’t fail over. The specific problem was to test failover prior to launching the Postgresql cluster in to Production. Sounds easy enough,, right? Setting...
by Garland MacNeill | May 24, 2018 |
This week I got asked to help a developer figure out why a failover wasn’t working on a Postgres cluster. Interesting enough I guess. Especially because I don’t know anything about Postgres. Good time to learn I guess? I don’t know. Anyway, I...
by Garland MacNeill | Mar 7, 2018 |
I had previously blogged about working on a SQL job that deleted data older than 13 months. Today I thought I would follow up with the database and check to see how much space was available in the database. So I ran a disk usage report out of SSMS and got the...
by Garland MacNeill | Sep 9, 2017 |
I’m going to start off this post with an apology, I am sorry for the rant that is to come. I don’t like posting rants on this blog site, I usually do that on my personal blog. So why break protocol and post it here? Well, because this rant is directed at...
by Garland MacNeill | Aug 9, 2017 |
I’ll admit, that for a while now, I have been longing for a change in my day from a job perspective. No, I don’t dislike being a DBA and yes I would love to do more development stuff, but that’s not completely the point. In the past I have done...
