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I think that a DBA can benefit significanlty having developer skills much like I think a developer can benefit significantly having DBA skills. I do however believe strongly that...
January 7, 2014 at 9:12 am
jonalberghini (5/1/2012)
May 1, 2012 at 8:09 am
jonalberghini (5/1/2012)
May 1, 2012 at 6:59 am
In an atmosphere where we support various customers the maintenance windows vary. Some allow for open maintenance any time on weekends while others require various levels of approval with...
March 23, 2012 at 7:39 am
Wow... popular topic... I had actually just written similar procedures to test and then publish 🙂
Yes you can do similar using HyperV, VirtualBox and VMWare ESX and Workstation.
July 11, 2011 at 11:03 am
I have used the same analogy with my customers. All to often they want the thing to run 24/7/365. They aren't willing to accept the cost of doing...
June 29, 2011 at 10:26 am
Thanks Jason. Self admittedly I have not taken the time to migrate to all the new system objects as I am still in a very mixed world 🙂
May 20, 2011 at 2:02 pm
As with any monitoring processes we can often gather so much data we find it hard to identify issues or trends. This was intended to be very pointed information.
Also...
May 19, 2011 at 6:41 am
There are benefits however SAN technology can sometimes still make them moot in my opinion. It all comes down to configuration. If you use a single path to...
May 12, 2011 at 2:17 pm
deanroush (5/12/2011)
Our SQL Server (2008 R2 Enterprise) runs three 'large' (well, large to us anyhoo) databases (OLTP = 10GB, data warehouse = 20GB, blob storage = 20GB).
What...
May 12, 2011 at 8:06 am
One of the databases I support uses a large number of file groups to seperate different types of data. Base tables are seperated among many of them and several...
May 12, 2011 at 6:22 am
When it comes to cost I have been amazed at how much risk management teams are willing to accept. It has always appalled me to see poor backup plans,...
May 10, 2011 at 6:59 am
"The Cloud" = "Outsourcing"
Maybe not all components, maybe not personell but really how about a remote data center or data center rental space...
"The Cloud" is nothing new but is a...
May 2, 2011 at 7:17 am
Data, Metrics, Analytics, Reports, Statistics... etc etc etc.
Personally I love Data, I fear Data, I need Data, I loath Data. Finding the balance of showing, storing and saving the...
April 18, 2011 at 6:49 am
My major push is an annual perf review for my customers. It allows for a baseline and much quicker fixing when an issue arrises after a change is made....
March 21, 2011 at 9:50 am
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