Today I had the need to find tables in a database that did not have a clustered index defined. Why would I have such a need? That’s a great question.
Anyway, I set about with a few basic questions for myself such as “Self, how many tables are there?” So I did what I normally do [...]
Chris Hansen and Code Reviews
About a year ago I blogged on how I thought Chris Hansen would make a great DBA. A few people said they liked that blog post and I loved the idea of getting Chris Hansen involved but he has yet to return my phone calls, emails, or telepathic messages.
Anyway, as I [...]
Automating DBA Processes
During the 2008 PASS Summit I took part in a breakfast seminar on “Automating DBA Processes”. It was my first, and last, breakfast seminar that I have been asked to participate in so I can only imagine I offended somebody with my requests for more bacon to be brought to our table. I don’t recall [...]
PASS Community Advisory Board
Last week I talked about creating a ‘customer advisory board’ that would be dedicated to help providing feedback to and from the PASS Board of Directors. Since that blog post went out I have had a handful of conversations about the idea, including about a 15 minute talk with the Board during our meetings earlier [...]
DBA Coach
I just knew I was going to coach college basketball. No doubt in my mind, I knew that I would be working the sideline on a Saturday afternoon somewhere. I also knew that most of the jobs went to people that were former players (regardless of coaching ability), or to people that were connected to [...]
You Will Never Forget This Day
There are more than a handful of days that I can say “I remember where I was when…”, and today you are going to be lucky enough to add this day to that list. For today is the day that I give to you an image of an invention so bold, so unique, so magnificent, [...]