Junior DBA
At our company we have two DBAs to take care of all the databases in the production and QA. It...
2011-12-08
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Blog Posts
SQL Saturday 99 – Data Education
Welcome to the third of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99. After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog | @ArnieRowland)...
2011-12-08
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SQL Server A to Z – XML
I can’t believe it’s already December. This year has just flown by. The rush of holiday events has already started,...
2011-12-08
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SQL Server is Smarter Than You
I had a brief email discussion recently, which could be effectively be boiled down to:
Them: “Are foreign key constraints more...
2011-12-08
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The #Meme15 On Social Networking
During a recent conversation with a few fellow bloggers, the conversation turned to how we each got started with blogging...
2011-12-08
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The Day-to-Day Tasks of the Average DBA
DBAs (Database Administrators) perform many different tasks, and one way to explain what a DBA is, is to describe the...
2011-12-08
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When training is just that good!
I have the privilege of attending SQL Skills Immersion Event week one in Atlanta GA this week. My expectations were...
2011-12-08
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A DBA is a Data Professional
By Grant Fritchey
http://www.scarydba.com/
A DBA (Database Administrator) is a Data Professional tasked with managing an organization’s data using some sort of...
2011-12-07
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Create SQL Server scripts with Visio 2010
If you are using Visio 2010 and creating tables via the Database Model Diagram template, you may be surprised to...
2011-12-07
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DBA in Space: Behind the Scenes—Question 13
Part 1 of Question 13: The Question.Part 2 of Question 13: The follow up to the question.This is a continuation...
2011-12-07
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Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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