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Dbas if you are up late at night ….. again…. check this out!

DBA’s take a look at these FREE technology tutorials from the MidnightDBA on youtube I recently watched this MidnightDBA tutorial on youtube: Beginning Powershell for DBAs This tutorial runs 1…

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…