Even when replying to the same thread.

Thanks- I thought that, but it doesn't. It always reverts to a tick.

Also, check out the salaries in your area. In mine (City of London), DBAs tend to be paid quite a bit more than developers at the same sort of level....

Thanks. I read Brent's article ages ago and then clean forgot to do anything about it. I'm going to see if I can get a policy created.

Changing some of the silly install defaults would be nice, like Max Server Memory (maybe cap it fairly low- it would still have to be configured on a case by...

In the UK I would say yes. Not sure about where you are. Good luck though.

Oh no! How much notice did you get, and where are you based?

I agree with Jeff. I've had DBA jobs that were horrifically boring and siloed (think: big banks) and dev-aligned DBA jobs that were (are) amazing and varied, with access to leading...

Congratulations, Koen.

After you've done that, consider increasing the frequency of your log backups to see if it helps.

It sounds like you're well on the way already!

I have no personal interest in the company, but if you can do some self-paced studying, I really like Brent Ozar's training courses and...

This may be true of all jobs, but I see such variation in skillset and ability among DBAs. Some are absolute whizzes at T SQL but don't know much about...

I've seen this before. Even with read-only routing (seemingly) correctly configured, the listener is still sending read-intent queries straight to the Primary. Have you set up a read-only routing list?

Congratulations, BWFC.