Monthly Archives: May 2014

Sabbatical – Back to College

Posted on May 9, 2014 by way0utwest

My employer, Red Gate Software, offers a sabbatical to their employees, and this year I’m taking mine. I’ll be gone from June 2 – July 14, away from work, but I’ll be blogging here about my experience. I wrote recently that … Continue reading →

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Backup Responsibility

Posted on May 9, 2014 by way0utwest

One of the most important things that you can do as a DBA, or really as any sort of system administrator, is back up your system.Ensuring that you have have backups, and of course, that you can restore them, is … Continue reading →

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No Handwaving Away the DBA

Posted on May 8, 2014 by way0utwest

There’s a great quote I read, at the end of this article. It says: “…if you think that switching to NoSQL will just let you hand-wave away all of the challenges of running a database, you are terribly misguided.” The context … Continue reading →

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Getting Local Books Online

Posted on May 8, 2014 by way0utwest

One of the things that’s annoyed me in the last few versions is that Books Online isn’t smoothly installed for me. I often seem to forget to run through the process, and I’ll find myself on an airplane without being … Continue reading →

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