Memories of 2013

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Memories of 2013

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December 26, 2013 at 8:29 pm

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Paulo A. Nascimento SSCommitted Points: 1717 More actions · Answer 1

No doubt, Brent Ozar's sp_Blitz and Ola Halengren's Maintenance.sql, both covering SQL Server 2012 and 2014 CTP (what amazing human beings these people are!).

Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 23009 More actions · Answer 2

I think my biggest memory of 2013 was breaking into the world of SQL and BI from a completely unrelated part of the business I work for. I've been lucky enough to have been given an opportunity to train and learn, from essentially scratch, as I go. I'm now terrified by how little I know, but at the same time, raring to learn as much as I can.

On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
—Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

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benjamin_bell SSC Journeyman Points: 96 More actions · Answer 3

As someone who has looked after SQL server backups, restorations and writtena lot fo scripts to do queries, inserts etc from vbscript... this year, I wrote my first SPs and took a step into SQL programmability and started to get SQL to do some of the work which I had been doing programatically in a long winded way for a long time!

steve.fortner 92896 Old Hand Points: 373 More actions · Answer 4

My best memories so far are finding that I can't see Brent Ozar's sp_blitz as http://www.brentozar.com/blitz/ is reporting a "404 Error - Page Not Found" error. The second memory is Steve's crazy avatar/profile image.

chrisn-585491 SSCoach Points: 16006 More actions · Answer 5

Best memories are how many people in this community help each other, especially on line. Some of the crazy MidnightDBA videos helped keep me sane through the year.

steve.fortner 92896 Old Hand Points: 373 More actions · Answer 6

Can anyone else confirm that the content section of http://www.brentozar.com/blitz/ is down with a 404 Error - Page Not Found? Brent's arguing that it's just me and I badly need to prove him wrong. So, he'll fix the error of course.. : )

Brent Ozar SSCrazy Points: 2451 More actions · Answer 7

My favorite memory is hearing that my stuff is other people's favorite memories, heh.

My least favorite memory: trying to troubleshoot people's computers and networks as they reach my site. :rolleyes:

steve.fortner 92896 Old Hand Points: 373 More actions · Answer 8

See what I mean! Someone needs to help Brent and I get this resolved before the new year. It's clearly disturbing to both of us. I just hate it when things don't work!

Edit: Doh! I just hit F5 on that page and now it's working as of 9:27 am. Brent, did you fix that?

Summer90 SSC-Dedicated Points: 32891 More actions · Answer 9

Upgrading a production system I helped install in 2002 from SQL2000 to Win2008R2/SQL2008R2. Glad that project is complete.

Brent Ozar SSCrazy Points: 2451 More actions · Answer 10

steve.fortner 92896 (12/27/2013)
Doh! I just hit F5 on that page and now it's working as of 9:27 am. Brent, did you fix that?

Yeah, I traced back the problem through the network wires, emptied out your browser's cache, and...

No. I was eating granola and reading the news. Got nothin' for you, man. Sorry, hahaha.

steve.fortner 92896 Old Hand Points: 373 More actions · Answer 11

lol, well I didn't do any of those things. I just hit F5 and it started working. Honest. I checked with my co-worker Justin and it's now working for him. And I just bet my wife can now access it too. Eerie. Amazing what you can accomplish with some granola. Man you're good.

Tritoch Grasshopper Points: 13 More actions · Answer 12

Taking baby steps towards utilizing PowerShell as a SQL automation tool. I had already used PowerShell extensively in other areas (VMware, Windows scripting, etc.), but this year was when it finally clicked with SQL.

joseph_c Old Hand Points: 317 More actions · Answer 13

Going to my first SQL Summit and shaking Itzik Ben-Gan's hand. His fundamentals for SQL Server book is what I cut my teeth on. Getting to shake Brent's hand and get a cool sticker.

Going to my first SQL Saturday and getting to talk frankly with Jes Borland, Tim Ford, and Grant Fritchey about doing presentations.

Oh, and finding out that Pragmatic Works has an auditing and notification framework, which makes my life so much easier as a data warehouse admin/developer.

Oh oh oh oh I almost forgot! Discovering BIML at Summit! Seriously, this is already cutting down the development time for our "easy" source to staging ETLs

Brent Ozar SSCrazy Points: 2451 More actions · Answer 14

joseph_c (12/27/2013)
Going to my first SQL Summit and shaking Itzik Ben-Gan's hand. His fundamentals for SQL Server book is what I cut my teeth on. Getting to shake Brent's hand and get a cool sticker.

Ha! I remember my first Summit in 2007. For me, it was shaking Linchi Shea's hand - same kind of thing, realizing that these people who write books and blogs are actually real people, and they're just like us. That was awesome.

That and seeing that there's thousands of other people who do the same thing I do - that was an eye-opener for me.