Category: season 1

Part 4 of Sean is Petri’s Dish.

Part 3 of Sean is Petri’s Dish.

Part 2 of Sean is Petri’s Dish.

Here we talk about an extremely bad cluster install done by one of my DBAs.

Part 5 of Sean’s Rub-n-Tug

Part 4 of Sean’s Rub-n-Tug

Part 3 of Sean’s Rub-n-Tug

The finale of our 1st season. Some good discussion here.

We’re back with another DBAs@Midnight. This week we’re talking about how companies don’t really care enough about their employees to keep them. We Continue reading “Companies don’t Care”

Part 4 of Adopting New Features.

Part 3 of Adopting New Features.

Part 2 of Adopting New Features.

While playing with our SQLChickens, we’re trying to top the plagiarism video from last week in Redmond. So after messing around a little bit, Continue reading “Adopting New Features: 1 of 4”

Part 4 of Plagiarism.

Part 3 of Plagiarism.

Part 2 of Plagiarism.

This is a fun one we did in Redmond while waiting for the SQL Server R2 TweetUp event at MS. We’re here with Denny Continue reading “Plagiarism: 1 of 4”

Part 4 of No Religion at Work.

Part 3 of No Religion at Work.

Part 2 of No Religion at Work.

This is a nice film with a few good laughs and we also get in our first on-film fight. However, come with us to Continue reading “No Religion at Work: 1 of 4”

Part 2 of How to Spin a Firing.

Part 3 of Evangelizing SQL

Part 2 of Evangelizing SQL

This is a fun vid where we talk about evangelizing SQL in your company, getting devs to take part in code reviews, and much more. Continue reading “Evangelizing SQL Part: 1 of 3”

Part 3 of Stuff Auction. Priorities and important questions on the first day of your job, a quick recap, we wander for a bit after Continue reading “Stuff Auction: 3 of 3”

This is another one that I just love. We ramble on a bit I think, but overall I think we give some good info Continue reading “Breaking up with your Boss: 1 of 4”

Part 3 of Resumes.

Part 2 of Resumes.

Part 2 of The Latin DB.

We start this episode with the special guest we’ve been talking about. Then we talk about the Latin DB, and all kinds of things.

Part 5 of Buck’s Taint.

Part 4 of Buck’s Taint.

Part 3 of Buck’s Taint.

Part 2 of Buck’s Taint.

We start out this episode with a great discussion on taints. Does it actually ite into IT? You’ll have to come and find Continue reading “Buck’s Taint: 1 of 5”

Part 3 of Bobble-Head Buck.

Part 5 of Bobble-Head Buck.

Part 4 of Bobble-Head Buck.

Part 2 of Bobble-Head Buck.

This is kind of a fun video. We talk about Buck’s bobble head along with DNS and DR, and the joy of logon triggers.

Part 2 of Sean’s Rub-n-Tug

We talk about a few things here, one of which is parameter sniffing. I know we’ve covered this before, but it keeps coming up Continue reading “Sean’s Rub-n-Tug: 1 of 5”

Part 4 of Fire the Samurai.

Part 3 of Fire the Samurai.

Part 2 of Fire the Samurai.

This week we talk about the death of Database Underground, Jen stealing at work, and much more.

Part 2 of Recompiling and Parameter sniffing.

We talk about so many things here it’s hard to nail it all down in a summary. Let’s see though, we talk about companies Continue reading “Recompiling and Parameter sniffing: 1 of 5”

Part 4 of Firing DBAs.

Part 3 of Firing DBAs.

Part 2 of Firing DBAs.

This week we have a nice talk about how to handle a DBA who isn’t performing like he should (No, not like that!!). We Continue reading “Firing DBAs: Part 1”

We’re continuing the discussion of keeping your sanity while out of work.

Here we’re discussing some ways of keeping your sanity and your confidence when you’re out of a job so you can ensure you get that Continue reading “Keeping your Sanity when out of Work: Part 1”

Here’s part 7 of the big group interview.

Here’s part 6 of the big group interview.

Here’s part 5 of the big group interview.

Here’s part 4 of the big group interview.

Here’s part 3 of the big group interview.

Here’s part 2 of the big group interview.

RATED R for language content. Whenever you get Sean and Joe in the same room the language goes out the window. It’s very Continue reading “Buck, Paul, Joe, and Louis: 1 of 7”

Here’s the 3rd part of our talk with Grant.

Here’s the 2nd part of our talk with Grant.

We found Grant wearing a dress so of course we had to put him in our sandwich.

Part 2 with Bill Ramos.

If you don’t know Bill, he’s on the tools team, so he’s the one you talk to when there’s something you don’t like in SSMS.

Brian’s cute, and brilliant, and he’s here for another round.

What can I say, Brian is just the bomb. He has more SSIS knowledge under his fingernails than the rest of us do all Continue reading “The Early Bird Gets Brian Knight: 1 of 2”

Finishing up with Allen White… good times.

We’re here at PASS 2009 in Seattle and we caught up with my friend Allen White. We talked about SQL, and Oracle, and even Continue reading “Get Jiggy with Allen White: 1 of 2”

Part 2 of Itzik.

We found Itzik at PASS 2009 and decided to keep him. This is a very informative interview on a number of topics.

Here’s the exciting conclusion to the 1st one.

This one was rather fun because it was another one of those nights when were were both rather punchy. HOwever, amidst all the messing Continue reading “DBAs@Midnight: Managing Tasks 1 of 2”

OK guys, here we’re talking about no moving schema. If you don’t know what that is, then watch this and see not only what Continue reading “DBAs@Midnight: No Moving Schema”

OK, we’re just continuing our discussion of having an excellent interview.

Hey guys… here we kick off a discussion about some reasons why you may still not get the job even though you had an excellent Continue reading “Good Interview Still Don’t Get the Job: Part 1”

SORRY GUYS!!! This was about a 45min video and a glitch with the computer lost the first part of it so you only get the Continue reading “Who Should Manage Backups”

We’re very proud to bring you our first DBAs@Midnight video.  Here we talk about how to study SQL books and be effective at learning what Continue reading “How to Study”