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The Results of My Troubleshooting - A Bad Starter Gone

Can’t Troubleshoot? Don’t Apply!

May 16, 2011 • Categories: Life Lessons, Professional Development, Syndicate • by

If you can’t diagnose a problem and troubleshoot it, you can’t work with me. I interview for that skill.

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The Book (And the balding blogger)

Prof. SQL Server 2008 Internals & Troubleshooting

October 11, 2010 • Categories: #sqlhelp, Best Practices, Book Review, Pet Peeve, Professional Development, SQL Server 2008, Syndicate, Troubleshooting • by

This book needs to be in your library.
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Absolute Data Destruction

Why Hire A DBA?

May 24, 2010 • Categories: Best Practices, DBA, Syndicate, Troubleshooting • by

Why would anyone hire a DBA? Isn’t SQL Set-It-And-Forget-It?

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The Titanic

Plan To Fail Or Don’t Expect To Succeed

May 18, 2010 • Categories: Life Lessons, Professional Development, Syndicate • by

In this post I’m going to let you in on a secret- You are going to fail. More than once and in more than one way. It’s what you do with the failure that matters.

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Victim of your database shrink operation?

Shrinking is a popular topic…

January 31, 2009 • Categories: DBA, Shrinking & Transactions, SQL Server, Syndicate • by

When I started blogging, my first posts were on shrinking. That’s still a popular search. Why?

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