Last week I received an email from @wnylibrarian:
Hi Thomas,
I’ve been thinking about registering with PASS, but I just feel slightly uneasy doing so because I’m what you would refer to as an “accidental” DBA. I hold no certifications, but have a Master’s Degree in Library Science. I worry sometimes about what I can contribute. My [...]
What Time Is It?
Joe the DBA sent me the usually morning email, detailing the failed custom collections in Operations Manager. I had asked for Joe to do this routinely so that we could monitor our monitoring system, as any good DBA with OCD would do. With our recent push for server consolidation I have been spending more time [...]
PASS Board of Directors Nominations
The PASS call for nominations to the Board of Directors will be ending soon at noon PT, September 3rd. If you have not yet taken the time to fill out your application, do not wait until the last minute. If you are looking for someone to make you feel loved, then this is the blog [...]
User Resynch
Quick question for everyone this week: how do you resynch your users after a database restore?
For same server restores you do not have this issue, but when restoring from prod to test, for example, you will find that the sid’s do not match and thus you either need to resynch the users or to drop/add.
Our [...]




