One of the things that does annoy me about these sorts of situations is when management feels like they need to get involved at the ground level and "manage" the...

For the most part I'm a big fan of integrated (Windows) auth, but I have worked on a site where one of the network guys fancied himself as a dba...

There's no way you can come up with even a ballpark number of DBA's per server. With the right tools, a well set up infrastructure, reliable networks and well written...

I'd have to vote yes on this one. Other experience in some other area of IT is an absolute must. But there's 2 basic types of DBA - those that...

Found the issue.

It's an IIS configuration problem. Open IIS Manager and open the properties box for Application Pools.

On the Performance tab is an option to limit kernel request queue. Default...

Hi Elliot.

We already have a number of those, and scheduled where possible, but there are about 50 reports where the users need flexibility in terms of date ranges, locations, departments...

One more thing to consider: I've been pressed into using the NetBackup SQL Agent at several sites, backing up the database either directly to tape or a backup server via...