Some data professionals are VERY well versed with collation, and some never ever have to touch the concept. That second group tends works in shops that leave everything on default. A huge portion of my career has been spent as a member of that “Custom collation? What custom collation?” crowd, and so I rarely get an […]
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SQL for Everybody
I read a terribly excited blog this morning by a guy who had just discovered Alt-F1 in SSMS. (If you don’t know, it runs sp_help on the highlighted object.) My very, very first instinct – I’m ashamed to say – was to think “Who doesn’t know about that?” That’s not right. In fact, that goes against […]
Bad Ideas: Alert Storming
Fellow DBA: There are so many alerts! It takes me a long time to get through them all. How do you filter through them? Me: That’s called “alert storming”, and it’s bad for that exact reason. Alerts are like money: People always seem to have way too little, or way too much*. If you have […]