• Thanks for the comments thus far 🙂 I have to admit I got scared (but remained calm and handled it in an orderly fahsion 😉 ) when I saw all of the comment alerts pop up on the phone's mail client.

    To the comments about the importance of remaining calm, a great piece of advice I received and neglected to put into the article fits here. It was a Paramedic class instructor and he said that paramedics need to be like ducks. If you ever watch the duck on the water, they are in control, just sitting there calmly and slowly moving where they need to. Look under the water and they are paddling feverishly. In other words, don't be slow but don't be hustled and rush either. Sometimes when we troubleshoot an issue we need to move quickly but quickly doesn't mean so fast that we lose all control and all appearance of control and start doing stupid things.

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    Mike Walsh
    SQL Server DBA
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