Tag Archives: administration

Naming Confusion

Posted on May 21, 2015 by way0utwest

When I first worked in a corporation that had many servers, I had to learn the encoding of our systems. We had SUIS01, SUIS02, NAIS01, NAOP01, etc. Each name designated a location and department, but no information as to what … Continue reading →

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Controlling Alerts

Posted on May 20, 2015 by way0utwest

None of us likes to be on call for our organizations. Late night phone calls, especially for something silly like adding a new user to a system or rebooting a machine, can make for irritable employees in the morning. Too … Continue reading →

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Getting Database Properties – DatabasePropertyEx()

Posted on May 14, 2015 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I had someone ask me a question about security recently, and while working through the answer, I ran across … Continue reading →

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Dig Out the Root Cause

Posted on April 28, 2015 by way0utwest

Early in my career in technology, I worked as a system administrator on a Novell network. Periodically we’d have crashes of servers on our network, or application failures, and while we understood that sometimes these were caused by transient errors, … Continue reading →

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