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As DBAs we quite often run into others who aren’t as smart as us. The dev is an idiot. The .net guy is an idiot. The users are idiots. The manager is an idiot. The VP, well don’t even get me [...]
For a very long time now I’ve preached to my various teams the value of doing your 20s. And I don’t expect most of you to know what that is, so here’s a quick explanation. I believe there’s certain syntax you [...]
I was recently asked to document some justifications around buying a load testing tool like Benchmark Factory. And for the record, while it’s not the only tool out there, I’m a huge fan of Benchmark Factory. I’ve used it for years [...]
Ok, a funny thing happened at work today. I had to write a script to move a DB’s files to another drive. Sounds easy enough, huh? Well in theory it was easy, but leave it to me to mess it up. [...]
Quite often there’s no benefit to a feature if you’re not using it, but this time that’s not the case. Even if you’re not using partitioning you can still take advantage of it in a really cool way.
Let’s say you’ve [...]
Here’s something I wrote on SSC a few yrs ago and I thought I’d rewrite it here to make sure it’s fresh on everyone’s mind.
One of the things I hate the most about dynamic SQL is all those [...]
I just finished an interesting email thread with a user that’s not at all an uncommon scenario. They were just installing a CU to some of their SQL boxes, and there was evidently a new bug that was introduced into that [...]
This is gonna be a quick post, but I wanted to throw out a couple easy ways to avoid using xp_cmdshell.
Unfortunately this xp has gotten a bad rep, but only because it’s been abused. If you use it properly there’s [...]
Ok, aside from being kinda sick still, my morning has been filled with interesting issues. Ahhh– the life of a prod DBA.
It started today with space issues–again. We’re just running out of space everywhere and it’s hard to even keep [...]
Yeah, some days it just doesn’t pay to even try to do a good job. Not only are my sinuses really giving me a raging headache today, but these are the ridiculous things I’ve been engaged in on top of it.
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