In the spirit of this section (Running), I will be posting my exercise along with any other Running related material I deem appropriate.
Today I made it to the gym during lunch. It was a short session – but well worth it.
32 minutes Treadmill and Elliptical @ HR of 172 (about)
I feel much better having done it.
Explore how to avoid unwanted results that oft occur due to lack of attention to detail, use of internet examples, misunderstanding of the requirements; and always from granting way too much access.
With a little planning and care, we can find various ways to fulfill user requests without compromising the environment.
Every once in a while there is an extremely valuable tool that comes along. While the footprint and use frequency of this tool may not be that big, the tool is essential to making the DBA job easier to do. I recommend getting this tool – especially if you have ever run into SSPI issues.
At best these phantom backups cause undue headache in troubleshooting. At worst, they make it impossible to recover in the event of a database related disaster. Join me for a troubleshooting journey involving phantom backups.
Planning to upgrade/migrate requires a fair amount of prep work. Some of that prep work involves auditing your server for any users that may still be using the instance.
Quality data is a goal we all strive to attain. Nobody wants to have bad data. Yet, despite our best efforts, the problem of bad data has its way of presenting itself over and over again.
For the most part, things work the way you might expect them to work in windows – except it is on Linux. Sure some things are different, but SQL Server itself, is largely the same.
This article demonstrates how to use Extended Events to determine if a database is being used by someone or something.
There are multiple ways of retrieving data from a table when you have a list of values. This article explores the use of the table value constructor.
I am humbled to be among so many great professionals and honored at the same time for having been chosen.
