What is an “operational” DBA?

On Facebook last night, I posted the following:
An operational DBA isn’t just a manager of a traditional RDBMS, transactional system....

Friday Followup For June 27, 2014

It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...

SQL Saturday #316, MVP’s, MCMs and a baby.

TweetG’Day,
Saturday June 14th 2014 seen the Christchurch, New Zealand SQL SERVER user group host its second SQL Saturday (#316).
We learnt...

Deck & Demo's Live & Thank You AZSSUG & OPASS!

Hello Dear Reader!  Just a quick post to say Thank You to the Arizona SQL Server User Group and to...

Microsoft Azure Portal Preview looks promising !

This is one of those posts which is pending for a very long time. I was pretty excited when Azure...

T-SQL Window Functions – Part 2: Ranking Functions

This is a reprint with some revisions of a series I originally published on LessThanDot. You can find the links...

Worst Day As A DBA

I remember the day pretty vividly, it was in the summer months and I was as green as green can...

Why Is your datetime saved as a bigint anyway?

Yet another issue I had never seen before - thankfully this time I was able to find a relatively quick answer.

On...

T-SQL Window Functions – Part 1: The OVER() Clause

This is a reprint with some revisions of a series I originally published on LessThanDot. You can find the links...

It's not Business, It's Personal

Hello Dear Reader.  I find myself at this late hour unable to sleep.  Yesterday the slate of speakers for the...