Toilets and Your Systems
Today, Grant Fritchey compares a disaster caused by a toilet to technical debt in IT.
2020-02-24
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Professional Development
2020-02-20
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2020-02-13
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Staying Safe when Traveling
Today, Grant talks about keeping your laptop and phone safe while traveling.
2020-02-05
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2020-01-23
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2020-01-21
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Why Tools Can Help You Do Your Job
Back in my days as a SQL server DBA, I didn't have many third-party tools at my disposal. I remember having a monitoring tool with licenses for only three or four SQL server instances. Whenever there was a problem with one instance that wasn’t currently being monitored, I would have to stop monitoring another instance […]
2019-05-18
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How to recognize the early stages of burnout, and my treatment plan
I recently realized that I’m in the early stages of burnout. This isn’t an unfamiliar place for me, but it is new for me to recognize the early signs...
2019-05-14
When Your Options Are Limited
In my role I am still on-call several times each month, and many of the escalations that come are simply things that newer DBA's and Help Desk staff have...
The...
2019-05-13
It's OK to be an Outfitter, not a Prospector
As data professional I have played with Analytics and found I'm better suited to development and administration, and that's ok.
2015-02-03
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday Live–7 Apr 2020
By Steve Jones
Last week went a little crazy, and I learned something: don’t post a Zoom...
Getting Your dbatools Version–#SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for...
SQL Server and VMware Resource Pools
By kleegeek
Resource pools are used to hierarchically partition available CPU and memory resources, and are...
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Daily Coping Tip 3 Apr 2020
Today’s tip is to Immerse yourself in a new book, TV show, or podcast....
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