New Job -> Week 3 -> Creating Alerts
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. The main goal for week 3: setup much needed alerts on DTU...
2023-03-31 (first published: 2023-03-30)
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New Job -> Week 2 -> Creating a Checklist
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. Last week was the first week of the rest of my life....
2023-03-27 (first published: 2023-03-24)
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New Job -> Week 1 -> What Tools Do You Need?
I changed to a new job and started it this week. Before I started, I thought of all the things I thought I would want to do when I...
2023-03-27 (first published: 2023-03-17)
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Creativity in Technology
I was planning to write a blog post on how you can find ways to be creative in any technical pursuit. Then, I found out from a friend that...
2023-03-24 (first published: 2023-03-15)
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Documentation vs Automation
Originally, I was going to write a post on troubleshooting SQL Server. This is because I’m writing up and reviewing a lot of documentation at my current job. I’ll...
2023-03-08 (first published: 2023-03-01)
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Help! My tempdb is full and I can’t access SQL Server!
I got a call saying the database server is inaccessible because tempdb is full. I get online and try to connect because I want to see the error for...
2023-01-18 (first published: 2023-01-06)
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Long time, no posts
I was working on two publisher contracts at the same time. I highly recommend never doing that. One is done, though, and it’s officially published as of September 2022....
2022-10-27
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Adding AD group perms to SQL Server
Why doesn’t SQL Server automatically check for the Group –> Object type when you are adding perms via SSMS? This hangs me up almost every time. I think “omg...
2022-10-27
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Standards Matter
published on SQL Server Central https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/standards-matter At first, this was going to be a technical article about an index maintenance horror story. I received an off-hours page. The index...
2022-04-21
What I’ve Been Up To
Just a short update. I haven’t blogged since May, and that’s because I’ve been presenting. Now, I have a publishing contract, so that’s keeping me busy. I want to...
2021-12-21
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