I have written more than a handful of blog posts in regards to finding a job as a DBA. In fact, I have whole page dedicated to helping others land a job as a DBA. But I never put together a post on how to break up with your employer. That is, until now.
This past [...]
Leaving…
I have enjoyed all the speculation regarding my new position; people like to guess where I am going and what I will be doing. A couple of people have remarked that they are curious to know more about what job would be so enticing to lure me away.
I promised to reveal [...]
SQL University – Parallelism Week
I may be in the middle of a career makeover, but that does not excuse me from missing out on SQL University. This week we are going to talk about parallelism, an aspect of SQL Server that many DBAs have only a cursory amount of information.
tempdb
The first thing you need to do is to understand [...]
Tom's Big Adventure
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca, Roman philosopher
In a time when people typically change jobs every few years, I recently celebrated my ninth year with the same company. For the last six of those years I have been a DBA. At first it was in a Junior [...]