With the proliferation of high availability & specialist online Backup companies, do we really have any excuses left to NOT have an offsite backup location, even if it is in the Cloud? Brad things not...
2009-08-10
139 reads
According to a study by PayScale, and published in the July/August 2009 issue of Inc. Magazine, Database Administrators make more...
2009-08-03
554 reads
Brad reflects on the characters of the DBAs he's met in his life, and suggests a common thread running through them all.
2009-07-27
248 reads
I am in the process of creating a new blog, but I am having difficulty coming up with a good name. I would like to go with a Hawaii-based theme on the blog, so a Hawaii-based name would be great.
2009-07-20
541 reads
I am in the process of creating a new blog, but I am having difficulty coming up with a good...
2009-07-15
1,196 reads
Brad McGehee provides a "career guide" for DBAs. It is intended both to help prospective DBAs find a "way in" to the profession, and to advise existing DBAs on how they can excel at their jobs, and so become Exceptional DBAs.
2009-07-06
10,938 reads
In the last year or so, there have been a lot of articles, blog entries,and forum posts on the kinds of technical questions hiring managers can ask a prospective DBA candidate in order to determine their technical proficiency. While technical skills are...
2009-07-06
2,966 reads
About a year ago, the first edition of my book, How to Become an Exceptional DBA, was published. It was...
2009-07-01
1,811 reads
Brad engages in a little Summer daydreaming, and wonders what the Ideal DBA job would look like...
2009-06-29
354 reads
If you have been considering entering yourself in the Exceptional DBA Awards this year, or nominating a DBA you know,...
2009-06-25
1,592 reads
By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have approached data management with the same mindset as someone stuffing...
Truncate Table Pitfalls Truncating a table can be gloriously fast—and spectacularly dangerous when used carelessly....
You can find all the session materials for the presentation “Indexing for Dummies” that...
Hi, our peer who owns a remote mysql server from which we extract warehouse...
Dear Folks, Restore jobs in my SQL2022 Standard edition replication were failing on a...
hi, just to get this part out of the way, if my intended target...
The new vector datatype in SQL Server 2025 requires a number dimension parameter. What is the maximum number of dimensions supported?
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