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While you were out, Kendra made fun of your shirts.
February 26, 2020 at 2:07 pm
I am not sure that I understand what you are saying Jeff. To me, you sound like you are saying that industry standards are not a good idea. If that...
February 24, 2020 at 6:33 pm
To bring the discussion back to topic, what I take from the examples is this: Industry standards are there for a reason. Find out what they are and follow them....
February 24, 2020 at 5:21 pm
The parts of our brain that we use on the job tend to become the most dominant, and that carries over into our daily lives and off hours.
I think...
February 24, 2020 at 4:46 pm
About 20 years ago I had the rare privilege to architect a system from scratch and lead the development team. I built in all of the things I had ever...
February 21, 2020 at 5:26 pm
Great article. A couple quick notes: Monitoring--I enjoy just sitting and watching system status data. The good thing about this is I immediately know when something is wrong. Troubleshooting--DBAs are...
February 20, 2020 at 6:20 pm
If I were going to pick a DBA celebrity to have all the answers, I would pick Kendra. I would ask Steve to be my personal mentor, but I have...
February 20, 2020 at 5:51 pm
Just set 'em all to sql_variant then, great idea.
February 17, 2020 at 4:21 pm
Great article Kendra, thanks. Money and budget are the basis of all industry. In my world, the basic unit of money is the developer-hour. Just like other units of money,...
February 14, 2020 at 2:08 pm
Back around 2014, my then employer was putting a case together to move from the last SQL2005 servers. The thing that clinched it was reliability.
Security is a good clincher...
February 11, 2020 at 4:17 pm
Here is the question that I wonder - how does it make sense to risk one's livelihood working for a company that doesn't upgrade?
Any IT entity that does not...
February 11, 2020 at 4:07 pm
Great article, I really liked it. I agree with keeping version history in source control not in the header.
February 11, 2020 at 3:27 pm
I joined an IT operations department in 2013. At the time, they were all on 2008 R2. I warned them at the time that they should begin upgrading immediately. They...
February 11, 2020 at 2:25 pm
When it went pop they discovered that the company to whom they were paying a huge amount of support hadn't got a clue. They had no-one who had experienced...
February 11, 2020 at 2:12 pm
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