No one sets out to become a DBA. Nobody. Well, there was that one kid who wanted to be our summer intern, but I’m fairly certain he was just saying that to get a job at the time. Truth be told, I did want to be a DBA. But that was only after having been a(…)
Doing it Wrong: Database Mirroring
Just a quick post for some Friday fun. If you want to know how to do database mirroring right, start with this MSDN link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189852.aspx And if you are thinking of buying yourself a nice book on Christmas on database mirroring, I’d recommend this one: Pro SQL Server 2008 Mirroring
Internet of Things: The Data is Coming From Inside the House
It’s the classic twist in horror stories from 40 (or more) years ago, back in a time when most homes only had one phone line and the idea of calling your own home was something reserved only for phreakers. Here’s a clip of a movie scene from 1974 called “Black Christmas” (skip to 4:29 in(…)
The Five DBA Food Groups
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the USA. It’s a day where we are supposed to be thankful for what we have been given and instead we mostly use it as an excuse to eat obscene amounts of food, watch 10 hours of NFL action, and force retail workers to work longer hours in the name of(…)
What I’m Bringing To PASS Summit 2014
Tomorrow I fly West to Seattle, heading to the Microsoft MVP Summit for Sunday and Monday followed by the PASS Summit on Tuesday through Friday. I usually try to write some type of Summit preview post but time was short this year. Instead I decided to share something else with you, and that’s a specific(…)
Do You Make These 5 Database Design Mistakes? [SLIDESHOW]
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A while back I wrote a post on the five database design mistakes you don’t want to make. I always meant to build slides for the post but never seemed to have the time. I finally found a few odd moments here and there over the past few weeks and got a deck uploaded to(…)