Thanks Stephanie!

The redirection process on the blog was failing and all links should now make it to their intended destination 🙂

Ha ha brilliant!

I think I may just leave the dead link there but it's also included below for reference until i can edit the article.

http://www.johnsansom.com/how-to-raise-your-game-by-doing-nothing/[/url]

Thanks for letting me know.

Indeed obvious and yet so tricky for many to actually do....

Thanks for your comments!

Thanks for sharing those resources Pedro! I'm sure they will prove useful to other readers.

Thanks for your feedback Ryan! If something is not clear then I want to know about it and I appreciate you taking the time to explain your thinking.

slim.richard (4/9/2012)

Not saying automation is bad just that you have to be careful to not overdo it and to have a good clean out periodically where you review a scripts...

dlineberry, thanks for your comments sir.

It sounds as though you are well versed in the art of automation and I imagine you probably have some great code/advice you could share...

Hi Ryan,

Consider that the article theme is to encourage the development of a mind set that looks to automate all processes, where applicable. It is not the aim of the...

Mohammed, good man. Thanks for stepping in and helping heb1014 in my absence, I appreciate it.

Hi Greg, it sounds like you're on the right track sir!

Using a "DBA" database on each instance in order to manage your environment, store your scripts etc. is a great...

artilugio, my pleasure sir, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Wait, do people even still use Python? 😉

happycat59, Well said sir!

You're not ignoring the problem by working towards actually fixing it for good. It's called paying down Technical Debt.

Thanks for sharing your story.

SQL-Expat, PowerShell can certainly help you with some of these tasks.

Thanks Mike, glad you found it useful. Always test those changes in DEV first 😉

Thanks Mohammed! You can never have too many PQWs 🙂