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
Join me at SQLBits 2020
The SQLBits conference is taking place in London again this year, between March 31st...
DBA, a job, a vital job
DBA, a job, a vital job. T-SQL a language that is fun. Select, a...
SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD – What is it really telling us?
I decided to write this off the back of a conversation I was having...
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SMO Certificate Export - FailedOperationException
Greetings, Given this Powershell SMO method call... $_cert.Export("$CertificateLocation\$_cert_name.cer", ` "$PrivateKeyLocation\$_cert_name.pvk", ` $_secret) where $_cert...
Resultset in a format
I have the following tables: create table #EmployeeSystemsMaster(EmployeeSystemID int, EmployeeSystemName nvarchar(150)) insert into #EmployeeSystemsMaster...
SQL Server data masking
Can you able to mask data in sql server 2012? If yes, would it...
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