Would love to take a risk; there are so many times when I feel I just want to walk out that door and see where it will take me. Alas;...

Its not possible for the majority to live so close to work or to find work so close to home.

Most of the people I know take about 45mins to 1...

If its an upgrade, it will come up in the upgrade plan and the maintenance plans will be upgraded too.

White lie's are dangerous.

I once had a problem with a database. The problem was simple, but its one of those times that you simply overlook the main troubling cause. And...

How far should the offsite storage location be? A disaster that would strike and cripple the whole city, then no place is secure within that city.

Perhaps organisations need to look...

I work at Cenitex which is the IT services provider for Victorian Government - Australia. Working as a contractor role but in a way its just like permanent full time...

Working in the governement is 😎 . Atleast they provide us with really good chairs.

Before they brought in the new chairs; there was a trial period of 3 weeks, where...

I guess the various personalities of the DBA comes from the job itself.

Unlike others, we cant just do nothing about anything that fails. We have to find a solution and...

probably SQL is using the full memory of the notebook. That could be an issue. You can always set SQL to use a specified amount of memory and leave some...

The job definitely gets missed if its still running during its next scheduled run.

You could also check whether any blocks occur that delay that job.

Facebook and Linked in have both become a headache now. Rather than sending an email directly to me, friends now post messages on facebook and LinkedIn and then they wonder...

HI,

Thanks for your reply. The job runs daily every morning around 5:00am. However you are right about the errors which show in the job completion message.

The funny thing is that...