If your DBA is still adding Windows logins to your database servers then they are doing it wrong.
Using logins (versus Windows groups) is an inefficient method that hasn’t been considered a favorable practice for almost ten years. Oh…sure…it works. I won’t argue that point. But if you are administering hundreds of database servers and you are using logins [...]
Last year I wrote a book review about The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture. The short of it is this: there is a shortage of fact checkers. And no, having facts checked by a community of users (AKA: Wikipedia) doesn’t work because those are the same amateurs that are running [...]
You never see the termites, you only see the damage they have done. And by then it is often too late.
Same with corruption inside of your database. Often time most folks have no idea there is any issue until it is too late.
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a quick and easy way to [...]
Every great DBA I know is both driven AND lazy. They are driven to be as efficient as possible, so they can do less work. It’s a wonderful pair of personality traits to have as a DBA.
The unfortunate part is that the more driven they are, the more efficient and lazier they get, which often [...]