I think another requirement is that a developer needs to have support time under their belt. Developers that write code and hand it off never get a good feel...

The problem that is faced in requiring industry experience in both development dba's and non dev is that they often do not ask important questions because they 'understand' the industry....

I need a better weather station to start measuring things around here at a few places and log to my computer. I have one that I check periodically, but I...

Just curious here... when you say "normal house", do you mean the average person off the street's house or the average geek's joint? Or, let's say, a total nutjob's house...

We investigated the potential of putting up a WindSpire personal turbine in our front yard. Two actually... one on each side of the driveway. We have the minimal...

One thing that i think has to be done for any TSQL that is going to stick around is to run a showplan on it. Ensure that the indexing...

I wish i could use it. The whole logging of locations and security unkowns is a showstopper unfortunatley. I wish it was a stand alone app. I...

Speaking of impacts on productivity... I am unsubscribing to this thread and just checking it later today 😉

It seems to be a good excuse this morning to stop what i...

This is the exact reason that I requested to have my schedule changed from 8-5 to 7-4. It gives me that hour to get stuff done before others get...

I am all about sharing knowledge and bettering others. HOWEVER! I am also extremely insulted when someone asks me to teach them how to do everything in a cliff's...

ok... so i had a real nice reply typed up... then it errored when i hit reply. Oh well... now you just get a semi bulleted rant.

Take small steps....

a benefit to storing the data is that in lieu of alerting on 80-90 % drive utilization you can alert on % changed. It allows you to catch when...

I would suggest taking it another step. It may require some dreaded overtime to get in place but is well worth it. We are dba's not secretaries or...

i have a few absolutes... especially as i am not invovled in the development phase I inherit whatever is done well... or not so well.

#1: Test to the max scale...

We do monitoring on ~125 SQL Servers. We unfortunately do not have access to them unless we call the site and connect to their system through a VPN. ...