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As A DBA, Where Do I Start?

January 31, 2010 • Categories: • by

This presentation is aimed at the starting DBA, accidental DBA or developer having to wear a DBA hat occasionally. It was written to hopefully convey the important order of operations to a DBA just starting out and walk through the “itties” of Database Administration. This has been delivered at:

SQL Saturday #34 in Waltham, MA
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Where do I start?!?!

March 5, 2009 • Categories: Best Practices, DBA, Pet Peeve, Syndicate • by

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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