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 replication. For the past couple of days, I’ve been working on...

Mistakes happen Today, I’m not thankful that it’s Friday, although I am happy about it. Today I am thankful for the wisdom of Grant Fritchey (blog/twitter). No Grant didn’t help me with any kind o...

Damn the windows firewall Automatic seeding is to be the lynchpin on PowerShell script I’m working on and will post about later. The idea will be to check for new databases added during the day, a...

Working from home As a DBA, working from home (WFH) is not a new concept or new experience, I do it a lot. However, this shift to working from home due to the office being closed for Covid-19 is a...

I don’t know why I am slow to take up new tools, but I am. I recently, like back in December, began working with DBATools. In case you’re not familiar, DBATools is a PowerShell module assembled by ...

Technical Debt Kids, it’s 2020. That means it is way past time to stop kicking the can down the road. Most of us in IT have been around long enough to see us shift from a centralized CPU (mainfram...

“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change”> ~ Heraclitus A decade of new challenges The rate of change is always about the same, as fast as possible, but the directions have shifted ba...

Everyone has seen the meme that the cloud is just someone else’s computer. Or that people don’t understand the cloud. I think either has become too simplistic of an explanation. The fact of the m...

Wait, not everyone always agrees? when it comes to working with other people it is always best to remember that others are not always on the same page. In fact, when dealing with others that work ...

It’s been a couple of years since I have been able to attend a SQL Saturday. I was grateful I was able to make it this year. This year however was a first for me, it was my first SQL Saturday in Mi...