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  • RE: Monitoring on a Budget

    I debated putting the Excel spreadsheet in the article. Ultimately, I decided not to since, once the raw data is in a table, you can present in pretty much...

  • RE: Monitoring on a Budget

    You're right. I really need to spend some time converting this over to SQL 2005 and expanding it beyond SQL Server.

  • RE: Monitoring on a Budget

    To be quite honest, I hadn't thought of monitoring counters outside of SQL Server. You've sparked my interest.

    We did add code to track disk space when we were trying...

  • RE: Half a Million

    I found this site at my last place of employment where I was the only DBA to support 150+/- database servers with a budget of $0. The nice thing...

  • RE: Problem with log file

    I would offer two potential solutions:

    1) backup database

    set database to simple recovery

    do your deletes

    reset database back to full...

  • RE: SS2k5 distribution of services

    Very helpful. These are the exact issues we'll be facing in the near future.

    thank you,

    Bert

  • RE: Junior

    No, but they are closely related

  • RE: Junior

    Oh, that job is now just a distant night mare.  My only point was, the answer to your question can radically different, depending on who's giving the answer.  As for...

  • RE: Junior

    Excellent question!  The last company/boss I worked for struggled with this question.  I hired in as a Jr. DBA despite the fact I had 10...

  • RE: Smart Companies

    If you want to judge smartness by line of business, then the floor covering industry is BY FAR the dumbest on the planet.  I worked for two of the...

  • RE: Smart Companies

    I learned long ago that what's smart to one is pure stupidity to others.  As a DBA, I'm not privy to everything going on in my company (though some...

  • RE: The IT Career

    Ooooo...you probably shouldn't be so mean about Star Trek.  There are probably people reading this blog who have REAL phasers!

  • RE: The IT Career

     

    The kept the "red stapler" in a locked, transparent box on my desk and sent me a steady stream of papers (in dire...

  • RE: The IT Career

    They kept me in the basement and treated me like a mushroom...if you know what I mean

  • RE: The IT Career

    Wanna bet?  I once worked in THE IT shop from HELL!!!!

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