This week was DBA Week At SQL University. We’ve seen two great posts from Robert Davis, a couple posts from me and some input from DBA Coach LaRock.
Today we’ll lighten things up. It’s Friday so let’s close our notebooks and have a classroom discussion about our attitudes and learning. There are all sorts of DBAs [...]
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 [...]
What do checklists, recipes or algorithms have to do with Database Administration? A lot… If we study a few career paths we can see how a checklist or process flow makes their lives easier. I love stealing ideas from everyday life, working them into something useful for my DBA career and I think we have [...]
As a SQL Server DBA, where do I start?
So you are a new DBA. Maybe you are someplace that hasn’t had a DBA, maybe you are someplace that didn’t have a great DBA. Requests are piling up, your head is spinning with the instances you are discovering and people are getting excited that there is [...]
A while back a conversation on Jonathan Kehayias’ former blog (he has moved) gave me an idea for this post.
Once you have been a DBA for any length of time, you will encounter the situation of a new vendor coming in with software that has a database back end. Wherever I am working or [...]
Or how I learned to stop asking so much and start trying…
Empirical, as defined by Webster: 1.) originating in or based on observation or experience 2.) relying on experience or observation alone often without due regard for system and theory 3.)capable of being verified or disproved by observation or experiment.
I think empirical thought and evidence [...]
Have you lost your mind?!
What could I possibly mean by that title? I’m a DBA… One of the basic tenets of a DBA is “backup, backup, backup”, right? Well sort of…
Far too often I hear people asking questions like “will this setup allow our backups to be fast?”, “how is your backup process working?” or [...]
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