Performance Tuning Pre-con and More at SQLSaturday 277 RVA
Join me for 2 days of fun and education at SQL Saturday #277 in Richmond, VA on March 21 and...
2014-02-04
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SQL Server Soldier :: News from the frontlines of the database wars
Schema-only Backups and Restores
I was reading the blog post Time for a Quick Rant by Grant Fritchey (blog|@GFritchey) about people who choose to...
2014-01-20
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DBA: Guardian of the Data
I was asked recently by Idera to take a look at the things that could cost a DBA their job....
2014-01-17
1,164 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #50: Doing More With Less
It’s time once again for that monthly geek party again we like to call T-SQL Tuesday. T-SQL Tuesday #50 is...
2014-01-14
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Who Owns SQL Backups?
I was asked by Idera to take a look at the things that could cost a DBA their job. This...
2014-01-10
1,055 reads
When DMVs Cost Me My Job
Back in early 2006, I was still working at my first ever DBA job. I had only been a DBA...
2013-12-27
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T-SQL Tuesday #49: Wait For It Roundup
A huge round of applause and my thanks to all of the participants and spectators for this month’s edition of...
2013-12-14
1,659 reads
Enabling High Performance Power Plan via PowerShell
One of the projects I’ve been working on recently was to automate our production SQL Server installs including our standard...
2013-12-13
1,963 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #49: My Go-To Query For Waiting Tasks
I’m not just hosting T-SQL Tuesday, I’m a customer as well. Err, I mean participant. Topic for this month’s T-SQL...
2013-12-10
1,215 reads
Never an Infinite Loop Around When You Need One
You may be thinking, “You’re a DBA. I thought DBAs hated infinite loops.” Well, you’re right, most of the time....
2013-12-09
1,360 reads
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Running tSQLt unit tests is great from Visual Studio but my development workflow...
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