Database engineer with a passion for automation
I was browsing twitter the other day when a tweet about dbatools caught my eye (I use TweetDeck and so have a column for tweets that contain @PSdbatools). A dbatools bug!! Oh no! One of the reasons this caught my eye was that I’ve seen this error in my environment with that same command. I…
A short while ago (it’s getting further and further away, but let’s stick with short for now) I was a football/soccer player. As with many athletes, I was pretty superstitious as far as my pregame routine. I always felt better going out onto the pitch if everything had gone smoothly as I got ready. I…
I’ve recently found myself in a few situations where I’ve needed a certain lab setup to test something. Most scenarios these days I find myself firing up some docker containers to run demos or tests against. However, there are a few circumstances where you may need a little more than that, perhaps to test something…
I have just a quick tip for you today using the BurntToast module to notify us when a backup is complete. As DBAs there is always plenty to do, so we don’t want to have to sit and watch a long running script to catch the moment when it finishes. Usually what happens to me…
There was an amazing response to my TSQL2sday prompt for February 2020 where I encouraged folks to share their life hacks. So firstly, thanks to everyone who participated. A lot of people had more than one life hack so I recommend reading all of the posts linked to below. For this summary post I’ve tried…
It’s time for the February edition of T-SQL Tuesday. I am really grateful to be able to host this edition and look forward to reading everyone’s contributions. In case you are new to T-SQL Tuesday this is the monthly blog party started by Adam Machanic (b|t) and now hosted by Steve Jones (b|t). It’s a…
What a great topic for the start of the year as we’re all thinking about goal setting and personal improvement. Thanks to Jon Shaulis (b|t) for hosting this first monthly blog party of the decade. Imposter syndrome is mentioned so often in our community, and it’s really interesting to me the wide number of people,…
This is a time for material gift giving, for many of us. It might also be a time to consider the many gifts we have received through the year, and perhaps use this opportunity to appreciate people or situations that we were blessed with. When I first saw Mala’s post last week for the last…
I’ve been thinking about the cloud a lot lately, and I feel it’s an area that I would benefit from learning more about. I’ve attended a couple of presentations on SQL Managed Instances and have read enough to be dangerous (or accidentally spend a lot of money, one of my biggest fears when working in…
Today, October 11th is National Coming Out Day in the United States. This (2019) will be the 31st anniversary of its founding by Robert Eichberg and Jean O’Leary. The idea was to raise awareness and support for the LGBT community. If you know someone who identifies as LGBT you are more likely to support equal…