Top 3 ways to measure project success for the SQL Server DBA Team
These are the ways to measure your SQL Server DBA team project success: Project completed on time and within budget Satisfy the project owners / stakeholders Learn from the project…
Top 3 pieces of advice to SQL Server 3rd party vendors
These are my top 3 pieces of advice to SQL Server 3rd party vendors Understand why you are getting so many helpdesk tickets Reply to helpdesk tickets Commit to a…
Top 3 FREE SQL Server tools every Database Adminstrator needs
Every SQL Server database administrator needs one or more vendor tools such as: Backup and restore tool because anything is better than the SQL Server maintenance plans View SQL Server…
Top 3 3rd Party SQL Server tools every Database Administrator needs
Every SQL Server database administrator needs one or more 3rd Party tools such as: monitoring tool schema and data compare tool Entity relationship diagram (ERD) diagramming tool These 3rd Party…
Top 3 SQL Server books on the RETIREDDBA.COM bookshelf
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Fundamentals by Itzik Ben-Gan Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals by Kalen Delaney Pro SQL Server 2008 Fail-over Clustering by Hirt, Allan I wish these books…