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DBAs do you BURP?

Ok so NOT that BURP. BURP is Backup Recovery Practices…. Right? Review of webinar: Backup and Recovery Best Practices by Michael Wall. Wall is a SR Database Administrator and local…

SQL Server DBAs don’t make mistakes! Right?

Webinar review: Top 10 SQL Server Mistakes made by DBAs by Kevin Kline. Kline is a principal program manager at Sentry One. Sentry One mission from their website: ‘SentryOne empowers…

Don’t be that slacker DBA guy!

Article review from mssqltips.com by: Maria Zakourdaev: Receive SQL Server Alerts through Slack Zakourdaev makes some excellent points for using Slack to receive SQL Server alerts. Email inboxes are frequently…

Dbas .. Are you Blowin’ in the solar wind?

Short notes from an on-demand video sponsored by Solarwinds and MSSQLtips: Identify and Eliminate SQL Server Performance Monitoring Issues by Brian Kelly From the Webcast abstract: ‘Are you struggling with…

Top 3 features NOT supported by Azure SQL databases

AlwaysOn Availability Groups Nope – You can use failover groups and active geo-replication instead of AG groups. Linked servers Nope – You can use Elastic query instead of linked servers.…