Ken, many prayers have been said for your recovery. We all hope that you will get well. We yearn for your life to return to normal and all this is...

I have seen them together, and Grant is nowhere as good looking as Gail is. nor as tough and smart.

sooooo many THANKS go out to Gail for looking at this problem and giving a course of action that has helped me out.

You have gone above and beyond in your...

well, after some much needed sleep, and some review by the goddess of databases, i awoke to a few messages (see above) from Gail that indicated i could try 1...

Granting view definition on the specific procs and funcs will satisfy the need. With reader only, you get access to tables, but not procs and funcs.

I dont want them to...

in my last job, the ability to telecommute offset the pain of being in the office on occasion. I was part of a disparate team, and when in the office,...

i use this when i need a fast result.

SELECT

o.name AS [Name],

...

in the past, i have had a Monitoring DB Server that I could use to hit each of my other servers. From there, from TSQL or jobs I could execute...

Using an iPad would be fun. Using SQL Monitoring tool would be outstanding.

I am a DBA on the go. Motorcycling, dirtbiking, waterskiing, paintballing, racquetballing and so...

ive done this, and would love to write up something.

I started out life as a developer, and became a DBA. When i was new, i was so excited to learn everything about it, and prove myself. However,...

sharon (11/24/2008)

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hi tjay excellent article !!!

i was jsut trying to browse thsi site and it give an error.

http://sigs.sqlpass.org/SIGs/AuditingCompliance/tabid/135/Default.aspx

and also i could not find the code for the...

how ironic. I just barely got to read your editorial today. What was i doing instead? Scheming a system that would reindex my prod server. I'm...

Vivien Xing (10/27/2008)

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The duties seem to be DBA routine/regular tasks. It is nice to list them out and have the problems/changes tracked and documented. A very good and...

Steve Jones - Editor (10/27/2008)

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To me these are things that are daily checks, things you need to make sure are available if you get called when you're on-call. Issues should...