Dear Past Me on My First Day as a DBA
A letter to a past self from Pamela Mooney that might help a more junior DBA get up to speed quicker.
2020-09-22
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Pam Mooney
My August Christmas Card
Do you ever get the Christmas card that features a beautiful picture of a family on the front, and a letter catching you up on their year on the...
2020-08-28 (first published: 2020-08-18)
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The Length Limitations of LEN()?
I was using LEN() to troubleshoot an issue I was having with a dynamically constructed string truncating while inserting into an NVARCHAR(MAX) column. Since I know that NVARCHAR(MAX) has...
2020-07-22 (first published: 2020-07-14)
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New Article For Simple Talk!
Hi All, While I haven’t been writing here, I have been writing. I have a new article that has just been published on Simple Talk, and I am developing...
2020-04-16
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Level Up!
Great news! I was accepted this weekend to speak at SQLSaturday Los Angeles! This officially counts as a level up for me for my deadlock resolution quest. The event...
2020-02-25
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My Deadlock Resolution Progress Report
As I wrote last month, I went through a period of feeling personally and professionally deadlocked, and flailed about for some time before I found the answer of making...
2020-02-21
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How Do You Decide When Can Doesn't Mean Should?
An old proverb states, “Fire is a good servant but a bad master.” Put simply, it means that when controlled, fire is a life-sustaining element. We need it for...
2020-02-07
Discover and Clean Up Schema Ownership
My colleagues and I take schema ownership seriously. The owner (with few exceptions) should always be “dbo”. Certainly, it should not be a user. Why? Because if the user...
2020-02-03
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When the DBA is Deadlocked
When I launched The Noncluttered Index last year, it was with the intention of writing at least twice a week. For a while, that was very doable. Then, work...
2020-01-14
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Dropping Database Users and Logins: How it Can Go So Very Wrong, and How You Can Easily Fix It
I don't normally drop users and logins in production, but when I do, and it goes wrong, I do this.
2019-09-20
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