Carlos Robles

Carlos Robles is Microsoft Data Platform MVP also a very experienced multi platform DBA (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, SQL Azure) with over 10 years of experience in the database field.

He has worked in database support as a primary consultant and DBA manager for large national and international companies in the healthcare, finance and insurance, retail, food and energy industries.

International speaker, author, blogger, mentor, Guatemala SQL User group leader. If you don’t find him talking about geek stuff with his friends on twitter, it is very likely that he will be having a great time with his wife and daughter in the beautiful outdoors of Colorado.

Tagline: Just another witchcraft and wizardry site and DBA tips,
Interests: SQL Server, Linux, Databases
Blog: http://dbamastery.com

Website: http://dbamastery.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/croblesdba/

Guatemala SQL Server local group

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

Good news for all the Guatemalan data professionals, starting from August 2018 you have an official PASS SQL Server local...

2018-08-23

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Enable SQLCMD Mode on SSMS

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

I really like Microsoft philosophy nowadays, they are putting a lot of time developing good open source tools like SQLCLI,...

2018-08-10 (first published: 2018-08-07)

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First time speaker at Denver’s SQL local group

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

06/21 was the date that marked my career as data professional, for the first time ever I decided to participate as...

2018-08-01

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Is your SQL Server environment ready for GDPR? Part 1

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

Unless you have been living under a rock lately, you have not heard about GDPR. This has been hot topic...

2018-05-25

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SQL Vulnerability Assessment

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

Vulnerability assessment is probably one of the most underrated new security features in SSMS 17. This feature is not new...

2018-05-21

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Reviewing the SQL Server ERROR log

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

The SQL Server ERROR log is the best source to understand what’s wrong with your SQL Server instance, think this...

2018-05-10

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ITIL certification for DBAs – Part 1

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

In some point of your career as DBA you might have interacted with ITIL or at least your heard about...

2018-04-13

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ITIL certification for DBAs – Part 2

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

In my previous post I did my best explain a little bit what ITIL is and how important is for...

2018-04-13

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SQL Saturday #695 Guatemala

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

This is probably a very delayed post, but I have been really busy lately.
As mentioned in my previous post, I...

2018-03-23

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Speaker at SQL Saturday’s Guatemala city 2018

by Carlos Robles

DBA Mastery

I’m very thrilled to announce that I will be participating as speaker in this year’s SQL Saturday event in Guatemala city!
Here...

2018-01-04

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Blogs

Use a slicer to filter a visual based upon a measure in Power BI

By Meagan Longoria

Have you ever wanted to filter a visual by selecting a range of values...

Deleting Stale Local Database Git Branches with SSMS–#SQLNewBlogger

I wrote a post recently about pruning branches in git. That’s part of the...

Microsoft Fabric shortcuts

I talked about Microsoft Fabric shortcuts in my blog post Microsoft Fabric – the...

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Forums

Understanding Bitcoin: A Digital STILUBENCK Currency Revolution

Introduction In the digital age, cryptocurrencies have emerged as revolutionary financial instruments, challenging traditional...

Truncate tables where Referential Integrity exists

By Perry Whittle

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Truncate tables where Referential Integrity...

Blocking question

Hi all, We have a SSIS package that does 2 things in parallel: moves...

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Question of the Day

Post Restore Tasks for the Resource Database

I backup the Resource database from my SQL Server 2022 instance. I then install CUs 1, 2, 3, and 4. I have an issue and need to restore my Resource database from backup. Is there anything I need to do after restoring this database?

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