The Scary DBA

State of Database DevOps Survey

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

Maybe you’re using DevOps within your database development and deployment. Maybe you’re not. Maybe you’re automating all the things or maybe you’ve got a completely manual set of processes....

2019-12-06

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Tracking CPU Use Over Time

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

A question that I’ve seen come up frequently just recently is, how to track CPU use over time. Further, like a disk filling up, people want to know how...

2019-12-02

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Containers: Upgrading SQL Server from 2017 to 2019 RTM

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

Throughout the pre-release of SQL Server 2019, I was demoing an effectively instant, and magical, container upgrade from 2017 to 2019. However, when I finally downloaded the release bits...

2019-12-05 (first published: 2019-11-25)

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Your First Jupyter Notebook

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

In April, I said I was going to start learning Jupyter Notebooks. It’s November. Let’s get going with your first Jupyter Notebook. A quick aside before we start. I...

2019-11-28 (first published: 2019-11-19)

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Docker, Git and DBATools

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

For those who don’t know, last week was the PASS Summit. It’s an amazing event every year, but this last week, I saw a ton of indications that our...

2019-11-20 (first published: 2019-11-11)

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You Are A Coder

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

So, you say you’re a DBA. I say you’re not. You say you’re a system administrator. I say you’re wrong. We are all coders now. Every single one of...

2019-11-04

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Talk To Me At PASS Summit 2019

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

I say this all the time, but shockingly few people take advantage. Say hi to me. Please. I’m going to be at PASS Summit next week. I’ll be presenting...

2019-11-01

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Well Trained Staff

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

I’ve had the opportunity in the last month to do a couple of different consulting visits, one private and one through my employer, Redgate. The goals of each of...

2019-10-28

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Passwords = A Good Thing

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

Those my friends are, in my opinion, one of the single most wonderful things on earth, white chocolate macadamia nut cookies. Now, you may not like those. So, picture...

2019-10-23

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Every Execution Plan Is An Estimated Plan

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

I consider myself to be the most responsible for making such a huge deal about the differences between what is labeled as an Estimated Plan and an Actual Plan....

2019-11-05 (first published: 2019-10-22)

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