The Scary DBA

I have twenty+ years experience in IT. That time was spent in technical support, development and database administration. I work forRed Gate Software as a Product Evangelist. I write articles for publication at SQL Server Central, Simple-Talk, PASS Book Reviews and SQL Server Standard. I have published two books, ”Understanding SQL Server Execution Plans” and “SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled.” I’m one of the founding officers of the Southern New England SQL Server Users Group and its current president. I also work on part-time, short-term, off-site consulting contracts. In 2009 and 2010 I was awarded as a Microsoft SQL Server MVP. In the past I’ve been called rough, intimidating and scary. To which I usually reply, “Good.” You can contact me through grant -at- scarydba dot kom (unobfuscate as necessary).

Archives: April 2012

Changing DB_CHAIN Can Clear the Plan Cache

If you make changes to the settings of a database, it can cause the procedure cache to be cleared. Microsoft has documented changes that cause this for all procs within a database (scroll down to just above the examples). But guess what, if you change the DB_CHAINING option, it clears… Read more

0 comments, 496 reads

Posted in The Scary DBA on 30 April 2012

AlwaysOn Failover Bug

I just found a little bug in AlwaysOn. It’s actually not that big a deal, but it’s interesting. In a nutshell, if you have a table with an IDENTITY seed less than 1000, when you do a failover the table is reseeded to 1001. The steps to reproduce are posted… Read more

5 comments, 380 reads

Posted in The Scary DBA on 26 April 2012

Comments on Acceptable Behavior

Here’s the situation. We’re absolutely falling down as men and professionals. Ladies, feel free to read on and comment, but I’m talking to the guys.

This blog post has been percolating in my mind for quite some time, but a few new stories have brought it to the fore. The… Read more

10 comments, 1,759 reads

Posted in The Scary DBA on 23 April 2012

SQL Server Log Backups

While presenting a session on Common Backup Problems both at SQL Saturday in Orange County and at SQL Connections in Las Vegas, questions came up regarding whether, when, and how your databases should be configured in FULL recovery mode and what that means for your recovery plans.

To boil… Read more

4 comments, 313 reads

Posted in The Scary DBA on 2 April 2012

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