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 ( b/ t ). No Grant didn’t help me with any kind of problem, at least directly. Hell, I have never even met the man in person anyway. No, I’m not some kind of weirdo interwebs creeper
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 the community over at DBATools.io. This module, oh this wonderful module, makes some of the most aggravating parts of a DBA’s job so
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 (mainframes) to decentralized (client/server) architectures back to a centralized approach again (cloud). That means we have encountered problems and we have ignored problems, and
I’m a bad DBA, at least from the standpoint of blogging. Only because I haven’t done much of a lately. I did make sure to get a post in for TSQL2sDay to mention who I was thankful for. That was a great topic. So…if you’re wondering why I haven’t blogged, or have checked to see how I like the new
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. Which has been tough in itself. Trying to improve SQL
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party that is the brainchild of Adam Machanic (blog/twitter). This month the blog party is being hosted by Koen Verbeeck ( blog/twitter) and is inspired by Kendra Little’s (blog/twitter) recent blog post regarding the role of the DBA and The Cloud. Change Working in IT doesn’t have any guarantees except one, that things will