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A.I. is an incredible coding companion for any seasoned DBA. You already understand indexes, pages, fragmentation, and all the other aspects of SQL and relational databases. It is time now...
August 24, 2026 at 11:22 am
I can hear the questions asked in the voices of the characters. Thank you for the nostalgia!
I agree as well with what you wrote. Sure, I make most of my...
September 17, 2022 at 2:10 pm
I went to Amazon's first big AWS conference with a client. We attended a session included a discussion on Netflix's chaos monkey. My client was so impressed that...
March 3, 2014 at 5:13 am
I have been a DBA for 15 years. Whenever I have the control, I create synthetic keys using identities. I have taken over many projects where the developers...
February 11, 2008 at 5:39 am
An interesting take on an old problem.
I personally turn profiler on for a while, capturing "statement completed" events for the database in question. I use a filter of reads...
November 6, 2007 at 3:27 pm
You can use the optional "with tableresults" in the DBCC command.
Here is an example:
create table [#waitstats]
(
[wait type] varchar(80) not null,
[requests] bigint not null,
[wait time] numeric(20, 5) not null,
[signal wait time]...
January 12, 2007 at 9:08 am
I worked at a company that prided itself in being the world leader in "communications interception" technology (i.e. wire taps++)
They routinely configured systems to backup the database to the local...
November 30, 2006 at 6:35 am
Uhh....did I travel back in time or something? I have been using Management studio for over a year....
Why was this article sent out as part of the daily update?
November 24, 2006 at 5:52 am
"In case you've been completely focused on work and reading this nonsense as a way of taking a break or combating insomnia..."
Steve, I laughed out loud at that one, almost...
November 21, 2006 at 7:06 am
Steve,
I disagree with the statement "great developers never apply for jobs".
As an DBA that works primarily in government on short term contracts, I am constantly sending my resumes out. ...
September 12, 2006 at 6:34 am
Interesting article, interesting question.
However there is an ENORMOUSLY HUGE gap between "compatible" and "supposed to be compatible".
Even if a product is an exact clone of another, bug fixes in the...
August 31, 2006 at 10:21 am
Two years ago I was at a conference in Orlando Florida, listening to a very prominent member of the SQL Server engineering team speak (I don't want to say who,...
June 23, 2006 at 12:58 pm
What a collosal waste of time. Dont you people have jobs or something?
April 28, 2006 at 6:51 am
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