I had a recent project to enable backup encryption on all our servers. Then question from the storage team came up will this required additional space. Well by then I had already enabled in all our test servers so I wrote a query that would compare the average size of
At my first official DBA job, I was being trained the current DBA on deploying stored procedures. They had system where you received a ticket with the SQL file attached. You proceed to see if the procedure existed and if it did. You right click on it and look at
Paul Randal recently won the award for “Person You’d Most Like to be Mentored By” in the Tribal Awards, now Paul is offering to mentor 3 men and 3 women for two months. To get a chance of getting mentored by Paul, you simply need to apply by writing a blog post about
At a previous job I had several developers that had passwords for SQL authenticated accounts for systems that would give them more access than they needed when they had Windows accounts that would give them enough to troubleshoot issues. Our trick was to write a login trigger that would block
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by Jason Brimhall. We are writing about times someone took chances with the databases that the DBAs felt were not worth it. I am going to talk about taking chances with your backups, our #1 job as DBAs is to have backups.
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by Bradley Ball (blog | @SQLBalls). Bradley asked us to write about Second Chances. Giving us a chance for us to talk about things we have learned from mistakes we have made. Over the years we have all made mistakes or wished
Recently we moved some servers from being physically on local drives to virtual on our SAN. We started getting Error 833 messages every night during Integrity Checks. The more servers we added the more messages we got. I needed a quick way to retrieve these messages from our error logs
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by Argenis Fernandez (blog | @DBArgenis). Argenis is asking if we specialize or not, why we do (or don’t) specialize, and why we feel that’s a good thing. I started out my career as a Jack of All Trades mainly because my
I usually do not make resolutions because that seems like you are trying to give up something instead of gaining something. I would prefer to call them goals that way they can be a list of possible accomplishments instead of potential failures. For 2012, I decided to record my goals