I'm interviewing a lot of candidates for a mid-level Production DBA role at the moment, and one of the questions I ask is what's the difference between truncating a...

• This reply was modified 6 years ago by Brandie Tarvin.

You were really close. Our little Renata was born on August 19 at 2:12pm EST. There were some complications and she's spending some time at NICU, but getting healthier...

It's been the kind of week where:

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1. Mandated anti-virus software gets an update pushed over the weekend, begins gobbling CPU like it's the only application on...

Inquiring minds want to know, how many Threadzians are affected by this one?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49263781

Weird. The first time I hit submit for the above post, it responded with "Error are you sure you want to do that?".

Not sure what in that post triggered that...

No pressure. None at all. Nope...

Just found out my Grace Hopper session information.

Session Name: CR119: Imposter Syndrome: Am I Ready to Mentor?

Session Location: Hyatt Plaza International Ballroom H

Session Start Time:...

So today got awesome. Just minding my business, had a request in to start a Git repository for my team to finally get us into source control and out...

I don't want to do that. I would have to do it for every single database I create. That gets really really annoying and each click takes up extra time...

Interesting. I go to the last page of this thread and it tells me I must be logged in to reply. So I log in, and it kicks me to...

What a day... and the main vendor of the integration framework technology I've been working on for the passed year has suddenly lost interest,  On top of this, the...

EVERYTHING that is not DBA monitoring related or SQL Server Agent job tweaks goes through UAT / QA.

We have two environments, UAT and QA. Some things go through both. Some...

Oh boy. ...I get the frantic "the refreshes stopped working from spreadsheets" email. I walk over to the users, and try to see how they are doing things. The...

We're using a high volume vendor solution that has on and off performance issues. I'm worried about the impact TDE would have on a 2 data center, 4 node (2...

No, it's not local. My administrative account has less permissions on my workstation than my non-administrative account. My non-administrative account can elevate its permissions up to local administrator. My administrative...

• This reply was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by Brandie Tarvin.

AHA! Corporate finally responded to my questions and has documentation on how to add the encrypted database to the AG.

They also have documentation saying add the databases to the AG...