SQL SERVER DBA ATTEMPTING TO BLOG
Well tonight marks three weeks since I gave my first user group presentation and you know what, it’s been a total whirlwind since then so I’ve had little time to reflect. Myself and the fiancé closed on our first house and my parents flew in to visit. It’s very useful to have people on hand…
I was troubleshooting an issue last week which led to me firing up extended events to look at records being written to the transaction log, I typed into the search bar ‘Transaction’ hoping to find something that would do the trick and didn’t quite find what I was looking for. After a few more failed…
First of all thanks to Riley Major (b|t) for hosting this months T-SQL Tuesday. This is a great topic for me as I have mentioned before my goal this year is to work on getting my blog going and starting to give back to this amazing community. I am always impressed by the content people…
Thanks to Jens Vestergaard for hosting T-SQL Tuesday #101. When I saw the topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, I knew instantly which tool I would write about. Although there are many great tools out there that make my job as a DBA easier (and I’m excited to read the summary for this month to see what…
Folks, there is something fantastic coming from the creators of dbatools! Chrissy LeMaire (blog|twitter) and Rob Sewell (blog|twitter) just announced something big at SQLBits 2018, a new PowerShell module that combines dbatools with Pester to ensure your environment is “as expected”. I’ve been lucky enough to get to know both Chrissy and Rob by contributing to…
First off, welcome to my first T-SQL Tuesday which seems like the perfect first blog post to introduce myself and my non-SQL Server life. Starting this blog and becoming more involved with the SQL Server community (read speaking) is my goal for 2018 so here goes nothing. Thanks to Aaron Bertrand for hosting and picking a great…