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

by Mike Walsh on 01. Jun, 2009 in Best Practices, Life Lessons, Pet Peeve, Syndicate

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 [...]

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Checklists, Recipes and Algorithms

by Mike Walsh on 16. Mar, 2009 in Best Practices, Life Lessons, Pet Peeve, Professional Development, Syndicate

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 [...]

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Where do I start?!?!

by Mike Walsh on 05. Mar, 2009 in Best Practices, DBA, Pet Peeve, Syndicate

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 [...]

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DBA Questions To Ask A Vendor

by Mike Walsh on 27. Jan, 2009 in Best Practices, DBA, SQL Server, Syndicate

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 [...]

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