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  • RE: A Patch Disaster

    Automation is actually easy and I have no idea how they managed this mistake unless they were using a 3rd party (ie. non-MS) tool to deploy the update. We...

  • RE: Those Who Can, Do

    You know I wish more managers\executives thought this way. It makes no sense to emphasize the cert but not the real-world experience - sometimes some of us are too...

  • RE: What Do You Want from SQL in the City?

    I was shocked that the only event in the South was in Austin - Atlanta would have been really nice and is far easier to get to for a lot...

  • RE: DBA Support

    As an accidental DBA we're at 113 instances on 3 Production 2008R2 systems and hundreds of databases but fortunately I was smart and automated EVERYTHING when I took this job....

  • RE: Unprofessional Employers

    Most difficult when you work for a company that offers tuition reimbursement, and even has their own learning portal, but refuses to offer any time off for education regardless if...

  • RE: Dog Food

    We write several products and don't use any of them for our own purposes (one is a payroll product and my understanding is you shouldn't use your own software in...

  • RE: Turbocharge Your Database Maintenance With Service Broker: Part 1

    Or Developers need to include this type of index maintenance in the updater. Our installer actually does this for us (Index Rebuild) after every major update - and it...

  • RE: High Availability Upgrades

    That AlwaysOn feature is something I've been looking at as soon as 2012 was announced. The licensing is the only issue I'm worried about because our SQL VMs are...

  • RE: Should we outsource identity management

    Perhaps some sort of regulation for security? Our application (browser-based and currently delivered via SSL) is completely HIPAA compliant with passwords hashed in a separate table in the security...

  • RE: Cloud Patches

    I just designed and built (and manage) a cloud-based virtual platform and while some issues are valid others are really a result of poor management.

    For example, to delete an entire...

  • RE: Restricting access to SQL Server instances based on source IP or hostname?

    MysteryJimbo (12/21/2011)


    Chris Metzger (12/21/2011)


    No I saw that and it looks like it really handles more login triggers and blacklisting. I'm trying to do the opposite and allow specific IP...

  • RE: Restricting access to SQL Server instances based on source IP or hostname?

    Yeah I wish I could but the firewalling in vCloud isn't robust enough to do it. Plus I have NAT'ing in between so the traffic passes from one vLAN...

  • RE: Restricting access to SQL Server instances based on source IP or hostname?

    No I saw that and it looks like it really handles more login triggers and blacklisting. I'm trying to do the opposite and allow specific IP address(es) and block...

  • RE: Shrink and backup

    corbeckcup (12/13/2011)


    Another good suggestion..I work for RemoteDBAExperts, we support all product lines with a group of great DBA's for each product line and we also provide 24/7 proactive monitoring. ...

  • RE: Shrink and backup

    EdVassie (11/23/2011)


    I heard of a story recently about an EMC SAN that had a controller card fail. The spare card took over the workload without problem and no data...

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