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An interview with the Exceptional DBA of the Year

  • September 16, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    #382677

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  • September 17, 2008 at 6:23 am

    #872947

    Dan, congratulations on being selected Exceptional DBA of the Year. Way to go! Very impressive AND you ride a Harley.

  • September 17, 2008 at 7:32 am

    #872996

    Dan, congratulations on this great award!!! Next year you will have me to compete against! May the best DBA win!:hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe::hehe:

    :-PManie Verster
    Developer
    Johannesburg
    South Africa

    I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. - Holy Bible
    I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. - Everett Mckinley Dirkson (Well, I am trying. - Manie Verster)

  • September 17, 2008 at 9:28 am

    #873087

    Dan,

    Congratulations on your award... 😎

    Here's a followup thought...

    Would you consider writing an article on the script you created to automate every database maintenance task and metric collection process for new installs?

    I have some things like that, but I'll bet that everyone (including me) could benefit from your experience...

    Thanks and Good Scripting!

    Larry Hawkes

  • September 17, 2008 at 10:17 am

    #873124

    Congratulations, Dan. I too would love to have a look at the scripts you've developed to automate maintenance. Now that you're the Exceptional DBA of the Year, here's your chance to extend your "continual[ly] learning and teaching" to a wider audience.

    Best wishes,

    DR

  • September 17, 2008 at 10:47 am

    #873153

    Congratulations Dan! Reading the interview was inspiring. Your comments displayed the kind of intentful forward thinking that brought you the award.

    I'm interested in the standardization maintenance script and how it handles the different DB requirements. Specifically, how do you address databases where the data does not change often, versus databases where the data changes a lot. Or those that use full text indexes, and those that don't. Or those where the vendor supplied application guidelines indicate YES or NO to rebuilding indexes. Do you perform analysis before building the SQL system and apply one of several preset methodologies? Do you handle all system db's on all systems the same or differently within the script?

    With only a few servers and DB's to handle, I keep trying to figure out how best to provide maintenance to what appears to me to be completely different needs. I'm self taught so part of my education is just trying different methods and continuing to read up. I have put off gathering data into some type of a table or report, but want to move this forward.

  • September 17, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    #873268

    Dan,

    This makes me think we need to get you in front of the user group more often! We are really proud of you here in St. Louis. Congratulations!

    Kathi

    Aunt Kathi Data Platform MVP
    Author of Expert T-SQL Window Functions
    Simple-Talk Editor

  • September 17, 2008 at 6:17 pm

    #873316

    Outstanding accomplishments, Dan. Well deserved award!

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

  • September 17, 2008 at 6:52 pm

    #873322

    Congratulations!

  • September 20, 2008 at 7:42 am

    #874597

    Thank you all for your comments, and to those that voted for myself and all the finalists. As you can see in the posts I have had a few inquiries regarding the maint. scripts that I utilize and yes I will start putting together an article. It will probably be a multi-part article as my current script file is over 8900 lines of T-SQL. Hope you read my last article in the SSC newsletter on May 21 2008, . But, I first need to finish one I have started. It's on a little process I just completed that reads an outlook calendar (vbscript) and inserts the data into a SQL database. Look forward to meeting some if not all of you at the SQL PASS Summit-2008 in Seattle.

    Dan McClain

  • September 21, 2008 at 11:37 pm

    #874789

    Congratulations Dan on being selected Exceptional DBA of the Year. Great achivement...

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