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4 DBA Resume Anti-Patterns
Every now and then, clients ask me to interview candidates for their open DBA positions. I get to see a lot of resumes, and there are a few warning signs that pop up regularly. 1. The Keyword...
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Hyper-V: Getting Your Host And Guest Connected
Because I always forget stuff like this I have a confession to make, dear readers: I am a horrible VM admin. I’m also not great at networking. When I go to set up a VM to do something like install SQL...
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[Video] Office Hours 2017/06/07 (With Transcriptions)
This week, Brent, Erik, and Richie discuss running SQL Server 2017 CTP on Linux, receive side scaling on servers and VMware, query tuning, nested roles vs. assigning roles to users, hierarchical data...
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Ola Hallengren’s Maintenance Scripts are Now on Github.
For some of you, the headline is self-explanatory, and you just want the URL, so here it is: https://github.com/olahallengren/sql-server-maintenance-solution For the rest of you, here’s what it means....
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New Class: Always On Availability Groups: The Senior DBA’s Field Guide
Availability Groups are all the rage right now, especially since they’re included with SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition. Our Availability Groups blog post category is one of the most popular on the...
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New Class: Data Science Fundamentals with R
Now that SQL Server ships with R, and you can use R code in T-SQL, your managers might be asking, “Hey, can you start doing some analysis and visualization?” Good news! We’ve got a new class for that....
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New #SQLPASS Summit Pre-Con: Expert Performance Tuning for SQL Server 2016 &...
Going to the PASS Summit in Seattle this year? Join me & Erik Darling on Tuesday, the day before the conference, at our pre-con session, Expert Performance Tuning for SQL Server 2016 & 2017....
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Query Plans: Trivial Optimization vs Simple Parameterization
Facemaking You know when you think you know something, and the obviousness of it makes you all the more confident that you know it? That’s usually the first sign that there’s a giant gotcha waiting for...
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[Video] Office Hours 2017/06/14 (With Transcriptions)
This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss setting up an archive process, CTEs vs temp tables, deadlocks, alternatives to replication, Erik and Brent’s pre-con for this year’s PASS Summit, and...
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Builder Day: Doing a Point-in-Time Restore in Azure SQL DB
We’re trying something new at the company: Builder Day. We define a slightly-out-of-the-norm task, and then the team splits up and tackles the task on different cloud platforms, writing it up as we go....
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Builder Day: Doing a Point-in-Time Restore in Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Brent had an idea that we should set aside a day per month where we could build things in the cloud and blog about our experiences. I was tasked with Amazon RDS for SQL Server: create an instance,...
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Builder Day: Cloudbuilding Episode 1 – The Road to HANA
Staving off obsoletion Brent has recently set aside “free” time to learn about stuff up in the cloud. I only put free in quotes because we do have to do something with a cloud theme, but we can pick...
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24 Hours of PASS: Last Season’s Performance Tuning Techniques
Brent, last season (and I have so many good bad photos to share) I’m excited to announce that Erik and I are presenting the opening session at this year’s free online 24 Hours of PASS webcasts! Here’s...
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Trainable SQL Servers
Funny thing The human body is pretty good at adaptation. When you get sick or injured, your body responds and (most of the time) heals itself up. When you stress your body in a certain way, over time,...
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Does Separating Data and Log Files Make Your Server More Reliable?
The old advice went something like this: “Put your data and log files on separate drives and your server will be more reliable. If you lose the data drive, you can still do a tail-of-the-log backup,...
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[Video] Office Hours 2017/06/21 (With Transcriptions)
This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss cross-database transactions in AGs, agent job owners, column store indexes, linked servers, migrating SQL Server databases to AWS cloud, synchronous...
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Announcing Expert SSIS Training with Andy Leonard
SQL Server Integration Services has changed a lot over the last decade, but one thing has remained the same: Andy Leonard has been the go-to name in the business. I’m excited to announce that we’ve...
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There’s Something Funny About Variable Assignment
Guess who I’m going to give you three queries, and you have to guess what the output will be before you run them. Here they are: DECLARE @DatabaseName NVARCHAR(256) = N'' SELECT @DatabaseName = d.name...
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First Responder Kit Release: Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Wonderful
ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN WHO DO WE APPRECIATE? No one. Appreciate doesn’t rhyme with seven. Special thanks to @JohnKNess, @jsetliffe, @rabryst, @gdoddsy and @SOlsonFAC for various levels of...
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Introducing sp_AllNightLog: Log Shipping at Scale, Open Source
In our Faux PaaS project, we need a backup plan – or rather, a restore plan. On each SQL Server instance, clients can create as many databases as they want, anytime they want, with no human...
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