Losing your job Sucks

By On May 15, 2012 · 2 Comments

I’ve blogged about this before, but some things are worth repeating from time to time.

Losing your job really sucks. And it doesn’t matter if you find out about it ahead of time by [...]

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Red-Gate is Badass!!

By On March 9, 2012 · 5 Comments

Ok, so the other night I uninstalled my R2 install on my box and put on the new SQL2012.  I know upgrade exists, but I just wanted the thing on there and didn’t feel [...]

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SQL Server 2012 Launch is a joke (#SQL2012)

By On March 7, 2012 · 3 Comments

Ordinarily I don’t jump on these bandwagons and slam something publically like this, but I have no choice.  I’m amped up ready for a launch event and I’m in the office so I don’t [...]

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Changing Job Step Properties in Powershell

By On February 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I read a blog today from my good friend @SirSQL (Nic Cain) where he was talking about how to change retry attempts on all the jobs on a server. [...]

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SSRS Videos

By On February 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I posted 2 new vids this week on SSRS.  The first is a data-driven subscription primer that’ll get you up and running with not only what it takes to set it up, but the [...]

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Mystery of the missing files

By On January 3, 2012 · 2 Comments

About 3mos ago I had my work box rebuilt.  The encryption software glitched and it just wouldn’t boot.  So the helpdesk girl was able to slave the drive to another box and copy my [...]

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DBAs@Midnight X-mas present for you.

By On December 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment

With the popularity of the cloud, we’ve decided to give you a present in the cloud this year.  If you don’t like it you can thank Microsoft for trying to get everything in the cloud.

Go [...]

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2 Addictions worth fighting

By On November 1, 2011 · 5 Comments

A recent email chain with a friend has spawned me to write this post.  What I’m trying to do here is help the 2 extremes of people you’ll find in your company:  the idiot, [...]

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The answer is No

By On October 24, 2011 · 4 Comments

There are times in a DBA’s life when the answer is No.  And for once I’m not talking about a DBA asking a girl out.  This time I’m talking about requests we get from [...]

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Presenting at PASS Today

By On October 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I was tagged at the last minute to do my Backup Tuning class at 4:15pm rm 4C1-2 today. Heres the abstract…

 

The Backup Tune-up

Have you ever gotten tired of your 1TB database taking [...]

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