Interviews can be strange for many reasons, often because interviewers are not well prepared to evaluate candidates. This Friday Steve Jones asks you what weird things you might have encountered in an interview when someone is asking you questions.
I have a database which has several tables that have very heavy write operations. These table are very large and some are over a hundred gigabytes. I noticed performance of this database is getting slower and after some investigation we suspect that the Auto Update Statistics function is causing a performance degradation.
What motivates people? What makes them happy at their jobs? Steve Jones talks about Drive, the book by Dan Pink, and the possibility that people actually like doing their jobs and are willing to work.
I was recently working on a data cleanup problem where I had to do lots of comparisons of one row...
Microsoft SQL Server is a feature rich database management system product, with an enormous number of T-SQL commands. With each feature supporting its own list of commands, it can be difficult to remember them all. MAK shares his top 10 T-SQL statements that a DBA should know.
Did you know that commuting can actually affect your health? Steve Jones talks about an IBM study on this and suggests you talk to your boss about telecommuting or remote work. The option to do so just might be beneficial for your long term health.
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On February 18, Franck Delattre released version 1.57 of the very useful CPU-Z Utility. Here is a list of the...
We ran into a case recently where we had the logins and users scripted out on my SQL Server instances, but we didn't have the fixed database roles for a critical database. As a result, our recovery efforts were only partially successful. We ended up trying to figure out what the database role memberships were for that database we recovered but we'd like not to be in that situation again. Is there an easy way to do this?
We have recently found an elegant way to reduce the time, and disk space required for SharePoint administrators who need to perform granular recovery operations out of their SQL Server backup files. I used to get customer calls that would go something like this:
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
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Can I set Accelerated Database Recovery on tempdb?
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