Tracy McKibben

My real name is Tracy McKibben. I’ve been working with database products for over 20 years, starting with FoxBase running on Xenix. Over the years, I’ve worked with all flavors of FoxPro, some Clipper and dBase, and starting somewhere around 1995, SQL Server. I’ve even dabbled with Oracle, though I’ve tried to block out all memories of that experience.

At present, I’m the Senior SQL Server DBA and the DBA Team Supervisor for Pearson VUE. All opinions expressed on this site are my own and do not reflect the opinions of Pearson VUE.
  • Interests: Tech, gadgets, model railroading, photography, and of course SQL Server!

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A New Word: Immerensis

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immerensis – n.  the maddening inability to understand the reasons why someone loves you...

Deploy a Dockerized Python TODO App to Azure Container Apps Using Pulumi and Azure Key Vault

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In this post, I will guide you on how to deploy a dockerized simple...

SQL Server Wait Stats

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Everything in SQL Server is waiting for something…this is by design. And most people...

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mysql query timeout upped but job still fails about same number of minutes in

By stan

hi, i changed my mysql based linked server's timeout to N'600' instead of N'0'...

Somebody realized to configure Cluster-Aware updating on VMWare nodes

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Creating an Windows Server Fail-over Clusters with two SQL server 2022 and a File...

is it cache or something else

By stan

hi a few days ago i narrowed down the cause of a new problem...

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Question of the Day

SQL Server Collations

At what levels can we set the collation in SQL Server 2022?

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