Disheartening Apples

Question:  How many Oracle DBAs can you fit in Madison Square Garden?
Answer:  None, their egos won’t fit through the door.
No,...

Friday Followup For March 21, 2014

It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...

Index Scripting with Powershell

I’ve been actively seeking out opportunities to do more stuff with Powershell of late.
I had wanted to script out only...

More On Alas Snapshot

Hopefully you had a chance to answer the Alas Poor Snapshot, I Knew Him Well question of the day than...

PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Talk

I almost forgot to tell you about the Database Administration Virtual Chapter meeting next week, March 26th, 2014. I’ll be...

Reblog: March 14 to March 20

Photo credit – JStove
Old posts are like unicorns. You might see them just once, but it’d sure be nice to have...

The power of the baseline

There is one thing we all have in common, and a lot of us probably don’t even realize it, baselines!

While...

Webinar Q&A: Getting Started With Analysis Services

I recently presented a free webinar for Pragmatic Works Free Training on the T’s about Getting Started With Analysis Services....

Where is my Availability Group?

In SQL Server 2012 we got this great new high availability feature called availability groups. With readable secondaries under the...

Alas, Poor Snapshot, I Knew Him Well (Question Of the Day)

My latest question of the day is up, this one called Alas, Poor Snapshot, I Knew Him Well. If you’ve...