The DBA Team

Alvin Ramard (2/19/2015)

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This editorial came on an interesting day.

A few hours ago I decided I need to get my hand on a cheaper option to Erwin or DB Artisan. ...

Linked at the bottom in the challenge.

I'll make it more prominent.

Jeff Moden (2/19/2015)

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Case in point is the number of DBAs that I've interviewed in the last 3 years that didn't know how to do a native backup/restore or how to...

chris 31337 (2/19/2015)

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I've recently come around to this way of thinking myself and bought Sublime Text & Sublimerge, which I use as a general swiss army knife for general scripting...

Gary Varga (2/19/2015)

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Given that I have learnt to avoid using third party tools wherever possible and stick to what the majority of my clients use. This means that I don't...

Clive Strong (2/19/2015)

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I've only ever used this once. We had a client who wanted to move from our hosted platform to their own infrastructure. Rather than wait on...

iposner (2/19/2015)

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For IO constrained environments, striped backups come into their own when the backups are compressed: Since the compression process is inevitably single-threaded, increasing the number of striped backup files...

Yikes. Thanks, Jeff. Not sure what happened, but rebuilt the video and uploaded. Should be better.

Ray K (2/18/2015)

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Interesting article. ESPN ranked all 30 MLB teams. Here are the teams they ranked 6 through 1. They also have links so you can see...

I did. An older guy that I thought had dropped out of the league came back (from cancer) and started a new team. I pinged...

Ray K (2/18/2015)

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Quite honestly, just the simple crack of the bat,...

I hate shared disks. SAN admins usually get upset at me because I want the underlying architecture. Sales reps aren't thrilled either that I complain when they put all the...

Actually, I got the first draft of the first article yesterday. I'll review this week, and depending on edits, I suspect we'll get the first one out in Mar. We...

Michal-469362 (2/17/2015)

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Backups are being stored on a network drive, so they are not on the same server in case of complete meltdown.

And this server will have a RAID10 setup, so...