What about questions to ask the company?

Lately there have been a lot of great blog articles with active discussions talking about questions to ask potential SQL Server DBA or Developer candidates. Off the top of my head (and by means no offense implied to the many others, check out my blog roll for some of the blogs I try and keep [...]

June 24th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Professional Development, Syndicate | 2 comments

A Picture That Says,

So I wrote a lot of posts around shrinking (Here, here, here). Some of my posts were turned into a wiki article on SQLServerPedia. I thought I was done posting about this but one more.
I talked about why we shouldn’t do it on a regular basis. Why it should really be reserved for use in [...]

June 19th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Best Practices, Learn From Mistakes, Pet Peeve, Syndicate, Troubleshooting | 2 comments

Documentation

Documentation
(…Or how I learned to stop procrastinating and love tolerate a chore necessary task)
Do you document? Do you document well?
As I told Paul Randal (twitter, blog) today on twitter, this blog post was inspired by an observation in the shower and a recent question by Brent Ozar (twitter, blog). You didn’t need to know that [...]

June 18th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Best Practices, DBA, Life Lessons, Pet Peeve, Syndicate | 3 comments

SQLServerPedia –> Do you use it?

I was going about my own business today when I got an e-mail from Brent Ozar (twitter, blog) who is the editor-in-chief of SQLServerPedia. Apparently a wiki article that was made from my blog posts on shrinking has received the honor of being the first to receive the “Wiki of the month” recognition.
Great honor as [...]

June 4th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Community, Professional Development, Syndicate | 5 comments

Paranoid? Control Freak? Have I got a career for you…

The above personality traits sound like bad news. In most areas of life they certainly can be. That being said a DBA needs to have a certain aspect of these to best do their jobs.
As I blogged about in “Checklists, Recipes and Algorithms“, I describe other careers where a keen eye to detail and a [...]

June 1st, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Best Practices, Life Lessons, Pet Peeve, Syndicate | 2 comments