Alas poor SQL Server 2018 where are you?
World’s greatest secret is where is SQL Server 2018? It’s already August 2018 and not a peep on SQL Server 2018? Mums the word! There must be a REAL tight…
If you want to be a DBA super hero, read this!
This is a book review of ‘SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL, 4th Edition’. This book’s 4th edition published in 2018 is a…
A million reasons DBAs should test vendor tools
I found an interesting article By Steve Jones: One Million Tables The TSQL scripts in the article by Jones creates a database with one million tables. Jones also has a…
DBAs always validate SQL Server database backups… Right?
So you setup the SQL server database backups and checkdb maintenance plans when a server went live. Therefore your disaster recover plan is done…. right? The only way to know…
Hey DBAs you will hopefully remember this!
I watched an interesting webinar ‘DBA vs memory settings’ by Kendra Little and Jason Hall a couple of months ago. You can see it on demand at the Quest website:…