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 [...]
Policy Based Management Podcast – Part 3
Brent and I sum up the podcast in this final piece. Trust us: PBM is awesome. It is a nice complement to your existing monitoring solutions. With a little T-SQL you can easily create your own policies on demand. Plus we also suggest that it might be time for others to join us in the [...]
Policy Based Management Podcast – Part 2
Continuing from yesterday we have part two of our podcast where Brent and I continue our discussion of PBM.
In this part we discuss how to use Central Management Server to deploy one policy against multiple servers, show a major usability FAIL in the SSMS GUI, hear Brent say he will edit something out that he [...]