2015-03-16
185 reads
Grant Fritchey
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Speaker of the Month: February & March 2015
It’s not a question of scheduling. I just haven’t been to lots of community events in the last several months...
2015-03-13
584 reads
Upcoming Events Where We Can Chat
I get around quite a bit.
Next week I’ll be visiting three cities in Germany talking to user groups in Frankfurt,...
2015-03-09
665 reads
DevOps, the DBA, and the word “No”
Check out this DevOps Reactions animated GIF and caption.
It’s funny on multiple levels, but it also makes me both mad...
2015-03-06 (first published: 2015-02-24)
6,819 reads
No Such Thing as a DevOps DBA
Sjor Takes (b|t) has just barely started blogging, but he’s got a great post about a discussion he had with...
2015-03-02
786 reads
How to do DevOps as a SQL Server DBA
You recognize that you need to provide a pipeline for database deployments, that you need to automate as much support...
2015-02-26
1,460 reads
My First Board Meeting
Parents, you know that feeling you get after you’ve brought home that brand new baby (or in my case, babies) where...
2015-01-30 (first published: 2015-01-26)
6,354 reads
Oh Look, A Horseless Carriage
Never forget, we’re making buggy whips. And everybody we know drives little buggies and they need our buggy whips. We’ve...
2015-01-28
1,083 reads
Grant Fritchey Reviews Minion Reindex
Grant Fritchey reviews Midnight DBA's Minion Reindex, a highly customizable set of scripts that take on the task of rebuilding and reorganizing your indexes.
2015-01-27
2,612 reads
Common Table Expressions Are Not Tables
There’s power in naming things. Supposedly some types of magic are even based on knowing the correct names for things....
2015-01-20 (first published: 2015-01-14)
8,484 reads
Blogs
The Fringe Festival
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
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The Hidden Danger of Wildcard Operators In Join Operations
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A Worse Computer; A Better Car
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