Tag Archives: Friday Poll

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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The Reading Poll

Posted on April 25, 2014 by way0utwest

I’ve written and blogged quite a bit about how much I like reading, and specifically my experiences with the Kindle and e-readers. I started with “Should I Buy a Kindle?” last year, and have continued to update people with my … Continue reading →

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The SQLCLR Impact

Posted on February 21, 2014 by way0utwest

While I’m sure there are a few of you still using SQL Server 2000 instances, I think at this point that most companies have moved to SQL Server 2005 and later. Even if you still manage a pre-2005 instance, chances … Continue reading →

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Common Checks

Posted on January 24, 2014 by way0utwest

One of the things that I recommend to DBAs is that as they write code to solve problems, they write some sort of check to catch future potential occurrences of the issue. For example, I worked with a product years … Continue reading →

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