What Counts for a DBA: Patience
Technical debt is frustrating but dealing with it requires patience. Louis Davidson explains why.
Technical debt is frustrating but dealing with it requires patience. Louis Davidson explains why.
SQL Saturday is coming to Paris on September 14th 2013. Join us for a free day of SQL Server training and networking. This SQL Saturday will include a track on Business Intelligence, SQL Server, and something for beginners.
This Tuesday Grant Fritchey and David Simner will give you a step-by-step guide to how you can automate your database deployment Process using Red Gate Deployment Manager.
The best way of checking SQL Server backups is to restore them and run DBCC CHECKDB on the restored database. To do this regularly means that you need to automate the task. Allen White shows how, with PowerShell.
Monitoring drive space is something every DBA ought to be doing. Shaun Stuarts brings us a method that can easily be used to keep track of your SQL Server instance
Do you work in a great IT shop? Steve Jones talks about some of the things that make one and wonders if you feel you work at a great company.
To meet the upcoming demands on IT systems database administrators (DBAs) need to prepare the database and its supporting infrastructure for increased resource demands. Being proactive now can pay big dividends by maintaining service level agreements (SLAs), avoiding outages and resource shortages, and ensuring a positive overall customer experience.
DBAs are expensive, so isn't their time valuable? Are you aware of what you cost the company and use your time wisely? Steve Jones talks a bit about how to choose on what you should be working.
A DBA should provide two things, a service and leadership. For Grant Fritchey, it was whilst serving a role in the Scouts of America that he had his epiphany. Creative chaos and energy, if tactfully harnessed and directed, led to effective ways to perform team-based tasks. Then he wondered why these skills couldn't be applied to the workplace. Are we DBAs doing it wrong in the way we interact with our co-workers?
The comment from one person has Steve Jones stunned today. He discusses the value of diversity and what we can do in the community.
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