FWIW : Scientists are currently busy recreating tissues or animals that have been extinct for millions of years. Perhaps that will be the fate for relational DBA and this...

We're not dinosaurs!  I saw a Star Trek movie (from the 23rd century mind you) where Spock said that a SQL injection attack was used to do nefarious stuff. ...

Thanks everyone for the feedback. Sorry for the late reply, I've been visiting Persian War battlefields in Greece the last couple of days (I love my job, yes, I'm in...

There are lists of exceptions to this as long as... well, very long. However, as a general rule, pick the clustered index based on the most frequently used path to...

There isn't a single true path through this.

Generally, a database gets one storage location. Depending on the tools I'm using (I work for Redgate, so Flyway is the tool of...

That's what I get for not using the GUI for backups.

This occurs when the logins have different IDs between servers. Here's an article that discusses dealing with this.

I'm not sure why it went wonky Rod. A restore of a full backup shouldn't be doing tail log backups, successful or otherwise. Something odd going on. Did you use...

I've always found attending conferences to be valuable. I've learned lots at the conferences I've attended and have made life-long friends.

Which is why it is strange that...

I've always found attending conferences to be valuable. I've learned lots at the conferences I've attended and have made life-long friends.

Which is why it is strange that my current...

In my 42 years in IT with most of it as a DBA I never got to go to a conference.  The closest was a very few meetings with...

Being an introvert at a conference is exhausting. Utterly and completely.

And totally worth it.

No one believes me when I say I'm an introvert because I'm always up on stage, running...

Johan, did you try doing sni_trace? That is an event, in the debug channel. I guess I somehow missed that on the first read through.

I don't have the setup handy...

Trying doing it without compressing it. Backups are compressed by default ever since... 2014?... and zipping or tar or whatever, can affect the files.

I've worked on SQL Server databases for 30 years now. I've written multiple books on the topic of query tuning. I want to lead in with that because the next...