January 23, 2020 at 12:00 am
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January 23, 2020 at 5:27 am
I realized not long ago that I’ve spent a good 20 years complaining about how cranky and curmudgeonly SQL DBAs can be. Now I’ve joined their ranks.
January 23, 2020 at 9:17 am
thanks Grant, now I can't CC anyone on an email without feeling guilty (and buying cakes for everyone.)
I used to be cranky, but now i'm the nice DBA who fixes indexes and shows you the new stuff we could use (and quite often why we shouldn't - polybase with MongoDB, Stretch and wild use of functions everywhere)
to play on the CC email joke - I like to think we are all now BCC (better cranky curmudgeons) , purely on the grounds that we log in here and read, contribute, investigate (google still counts as investigating) and learn.
but you are correct - dammit , now I want to buy a Pi and see what I can do
MVDBA
January 23, 2020 at 12:42 pm
Congrats on the license upgrade. one more level to go.
We aren't Cranky, it's just hard to get people to understand that everything that's new isn't always better or cheaper just different.
January 23, 2020 at 1:05 pm
I realized not long ago that I’ve spent a good 20 years complaining about how cranky and curmudgeonly SQL DBAs can be. Now I’ve joined their ranks.
Welcome to the party pal!
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
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SQL Server Query Performance Tuning
January 23, 2020 at 1:06 pm
thanks Grant, now I can't CC anyone on an email without feeling guilty (and buying cakes for everyone.)
I used to be cranky, but now i'm the nice DBA who fixes indexes and shows you the new stuff we could use (and quite often why we shouldn't - polybase with MongoDB, Stretch and wild use of functions everywhere)
to play on the CC email joke - I like to think we are all now BCC (better cranky curmudgeons) , purely on the grounds that we log in here and read, contribute, investigate (google still counts as investigating) and learn.
I like it! We can officially use BCC as well.
but you are correct - dammit , now I want to buy a Pi and see what I can do
DO IT!
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
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SQL Server Query Performance Tuning
January 23, 2020 at 1:06 pm
I always loved having to work with logic like this:
DBAs are an aging population.
Duh! Isn't the whole population aging?
I'm a PROUD CC
Rick
Disaster Recovery = Backup ( Backup ( Your Backup ) )
January 23, 2020 at 1:08 pm
Congrats on the license upgrade. one more level to go.
We aren't Cranky, it's just hard to get people to understand that everything that's new isn't always better or cheaper just different.
Got it a week ago. I'm now Amateur Extra.
Oh, I think we do get cranky at times. Some of it is absolutely justified (see that unsecured ElasticSearch database). We just need to be careful of using the crankiness appropriately so we're not seen as blockers, but enablers.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
Author of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning
January 23, 2020 at 1:09 pm
I always loved having to work with logic like this:
DBAs are an aging population.
Duh! Isn't the whole population aging?
I'm a PROUD CC
Yeah, that qualifies.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
Author of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning
January 23, 2020 at 1:10 pm
but you are correct - dammit , now I want to buy a Pi and see what I can do
AND
on this note, SQL Server on Edge is now in public preview. You can run SQL Server on a Pi.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
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January 23, 2020 at 1:57 pm
MVDBA (Mike Vessey) wrote:but you are correct - dammit , now I want to buy a Pi and see what I can do
AND
on this note, SQL Server on Edge is now in public preview. You can run SQL Server on a Pi.
dammit man - you have just put in my head an idea for IOT type scenario - 100 clustered Pi boxes running edge - clustered SQL ...wait, azure and AWS already did that (even sony playstation did that for cure for cancer)... sadly I lack the free time, the money and more importantly the energy to try it. (I've got so many unwrapped gizmos and gadgets that I intended to work on)
maybe energy is the key - if your DBA is fully charged then we put the B back in BCC
MVDBA
January 23, 2020 at 2:19 pm
Get off my lawn.
January 23, 2020 at 2:20 pm
Get off my lawn.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
This is my lawn. You get off my lawn.
Oh, and test your backups on the way.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
Author of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning
January 23, 2020 at 2:22 pm
44 years as a software developer; starting from a mainframe using PL/1, then programming assembler on Intel 8080 8-bit microprocessors, to C++ and now C# on Intel servers. I've used Cygwin at work for extracting data from 800 MB files for reports and used awk to read an Active Directory file to create a CSV file for importing into a new system.
UNIX? Been there, done that. I enjoy working with UNIX. My wife bought me a Sun SPARCStation IPX at a salvage sale to keep my UNIX skills up and I ran that for long while until the internal SCSI hard drive failed. I've had Linux systems at home. I need to build my home network back up with Linux systems and add Windows Server and SQL Server.
Likewise, I want to get a Rasberry Pi. I read an article on setting up a VPN for it.
I hope to retire in 2021 and hopefully get my DEC VAXStation II/GPX up and running a BSD version of UNIX on it.
January 23, 2020 at 2:33 pm
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