2020-01-27
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Career
2020-01-24
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How Do We Prove Expertise?
Today, Grant Fritchey talks about the two paths to expertise for database professionals and why it’s hard to really know if someone is an expert.
2020-01-17
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Great Writers Get Hired
Steve thinks one of the ways you can stand out with your resume or CV is by writing well and attracting the attention of hiring managers.
2020-01-07
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2020-01-02
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The Best DBA Gifts
Today Steve asks if there is anything you'd want as a gift that would make your job better.
2019-12-27
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Learn to Change
This week Grant talks about the need for change and growth to adapt to the changing world.
2019-12-21
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The Evolving DBA
Steve thinks the DBA job is evolving and we will always need people to manage data.
2019-12-16
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Finding Your Own Career
Learning to find the career that's important to you can be a challenge. Today Steve has some advice.
2019-12-11
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What's a forgivable mistake?
Today Steve wonders if your company is understanding of your human frailty.
2019-12-06
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Blogs
Extended Events Misperceptions: Profiler is Easier, Part 2
I wrote a short blog post about the misperception that Profiler was easier than...
CREATE TABLE MyTable (Col1 CHARACTER VARYING (50))
If you read the title to this post and your first thought was That’s...
sys.xp_delete_files and ‘allow filesystem enumeration’: two new undocumented items in SQL Server 2019
sys.xp_delete_files and 'allow filesystem enumeration': two new undocumented items in SQL Server 2019… Continue...
Forums
Database Integrity Check jobs running for ever in Sql 2012
We have Database Integrity Check jobs running every early morning during off hours into...
Auditing System questions- no personal experience
Good Morning All -I have used triggers to do some basic auditing, but I...
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