New Job -> Week 5 -> Create Index Maintenance Scripts
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. Week 5 goal: set up Ola index maintenance for all Azure SQL...
2023-04-18 (first published: 2023-04-17)
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SQLKitty
New Job -> Week 4 -> Set Up Auditing
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. The main goal for week 4: set up auditing for all Azure...
2023-04-19 (first published: 2023-04-06)
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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....
2023-04-10 (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...
2023-04-05 (first published: 2023-03-17)
421 reads
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)
178 reads
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)
438 reads
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
25 reads
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
15 reads
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Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
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As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
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How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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