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Daily Archives: September 21, 2012
Verify those Backups
It’s important that you backup your database. The most important thing you can do. However making backups isn’t enough: you need to verify those backups are good. A humorous short video from Grant Fritchey (b | t) and RedGate on … Continue reading
Teammates
I loved the Terry Tate commercials as a young office worker. They were unveiled at the Super Bowl in 2003, when I was still managing a database team at Peoplesoft, with weekly issues occurring on our production systems. There were times I … Continue reading
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