I was talking to a DBA recently – we’ll call her Susan – who has maybe five years in the industry. Susan was worried because she’d recently made some mistakes that she felt too “experienced” for. “I should be past this by now!” she told me. Well, no. Not necessarily. Growing up in the Data […]
Category: sql server
Trouble writing? Join the club. #JustWriteTech
I was talking with a couple of excellent SQL people* recently, and we were bemoaning the difficulties and disciplines of blogging. This is what speakers do after a successful SQL event, by the way. I mentioned that I’d recently joined a writing group to help with my nonprofessional writing motivation, and how great the group was. When suddenly! I […]
Use T-SQL, not the GUI
There’s a very good reason to do most of your DBA work using T-SQL, and not the SSMS object explorer. Let me tell you about it…