Tag Archives: administration

Scripting Makes Mistakes Easier Than Ever

Posted on April 22, 2022 by way0utwest

A number of you likely use Atlassian products like Jira, Confluence, Opsgenie, or something else. You might have been affected by a large outage they had (post incident blog, Company Q&A, TechRepublic report) recently which lasted at least 9 days. … Continue reading →

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Removing a LocalDB Instance

Posted on April 6, 2022 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This might be obvious and easy, but I spent a couple minutes learning how to remove a LocalDB instance. … Continue reading →

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Starting LocalDB–#SQLNewBlogger

Posted on March 28, 2022 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Lots of people have never worked with LocalDB, which is an in-process version of SQL Express. No service account, … Continue reading →

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Easily Repeating Work

Posted on March 28, 2022 by way0utwest

I love this idea from Ken Fisher: saving your work. I don’t act as a DBA anymore, but when I did, I did something similar. We often logged the scripts we used in a file,  as a part of a … Continue reading →

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