April Question: What advice would you offer a novice DBA in order to help them along in their career?
Post your responses to the above SQL Aloha Question of the Month in the comments section below (at www.bradmcgehee.com if...
2010-04-01
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Blog Posts
Blog Topics - Where do you draw the Line?
I started blogging a few months ago and since I started writing my own blog, I've been a much bigger...
2010-04-01
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Career Advice - Moving to Oracle
I’ve always said that it didn’t matter what the database was. If it could do the job then it’s worth...
2010-04-01
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Getting Scared
This is not a technical post, it’s personal, but I need to express my fears. It isn’t about our economy,...
2010-04-01
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Goal Review Q1
As we close out the First Quarter of 2010 it is time to review progress made on the Goals I...
2010-04-01
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New Trends In Storage Technology: AFD
I have a passing interest in storage technology and trends so you can probably guess I got really excited after...
2010-04-01
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Outtakes
Sometimes I think I’m quite the goober. Alternately I’ll laugh or put my head in my hands as I try...
2010-04-01
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PASS, Microsoft, and Certification
Steve Jones’ (@way0utwest) recent SQLServerCentral editorial, The Missing Certification, has spawned a vigorous debate about what the missing certification should...
2010-04-01
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Powershell – Useful Resources
One of my aims at the start of the year was to improve my Powershell and scripting skills. I run...
2010-04-01
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Renewed as an MVP
I received my renewal notice and, after checking the message header, it is April 1st, I got very happy. I’d...
2010-04-01
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
Cross-DB Ownership Chaining problem
We want to setup a gateway db to host stored procedures which use tables...
Lots of FKs
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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