Degrees and Trade Schools
Can we normalize a couple of things? 1 – Trade Schools. Back in the 80’s trade classes in high school and post high school were frowned upon, or looked...
2024-05-08
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3rd Party Applications Have Issues
As a SQL DBA, what do you do when a vendor application has performance problems that are code related? Server settings don’t generally seem to be an issue. Queries...
2024-05-02
Set-Based vs Row-Based Database Code
In SQL Server, the terms “set-based” and “row-based” refer to different approaches or styles of writing SQL code to manipulate data. These styles have implications for performance, readability, and...
2023-12-01
Database Concerns – A Poll!
What are you most concerned about in your database platforms? Please pick from the list below, and expand on your choice in the comments if you like: Thanks...
2023-10-25
SQL Server Backups are Not a High-Availability Solution
Please continue doing your backups! Backups are Disaster Recovery, yes…but not HA. Some will argue with this (in the comments most likely), but I broadly define “High Availability” as...
2023-10-17
IRL #8: SQL Server Down
Problem: My PocketDBA® client called in with a non-responsive SQL Server. Application errors, timeout, alerts firing. SQL Server box is up, and the services are running. Background: This is...
2023-09-06
SQL Server is not a Car
Lets compare them anyway, just for fun. Both have an engine Both have a monitoring device (Dashboard/Activity Monitor) Both need power (Gas/Electricity) Both need to be told what do...
2023-09-05
Reflections on the Software Industry
Every now and then we like to have someone do a guest post, with a topic of their own choosing. This time, we picked Kevin Miller (LI). Kevin is...
2023-08-01
Test Restore Your SQL Server Databases
Pain Point: Something bad happened and you need to restore a SQL Server database. Pain Point you didn’t know you had: The backup files are all corrupt due a...
2023-07-25
Storytelling for DBAs and Other Technical Folk
(for your reading pleasure, written by Jules (L). –ed) We have all had that sinking feeling of defeat: you’ve just finished explaining a very important and highly technical thing...
2023-06-20
Blogs
A New Word: Fensiveness
By Steve Jones
fensiveness – n. a knee-jerk territorial reaction when a friend displays a casual interest...
Microsoft Purview FAQ
By James Serra
I get many of the same questions about Microsoft Purview, so I wanted to...
Undercover Catalogue 0.4.5 Released – Database Module Bug Fix
Full documentation on the Undercover Catalogue can be found HERE We’ve spotted a bug in...
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