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 [...]
Ever try to troubleshoot something that doesn’t really exist?
I think this virtualization thing is here to stay, I really do, but the trouble I see people having with virtualization is that they don’t know where the bottleneck truly lies. There are so many layers involved that most standard troubleshooting techniques fall short. Just think for [...]
I’m normally not one to advocate the use of the Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DETA), a tool available inside of Microsoft SQL Server. (To be fair, I’m not a fan of the SQL Tuning Advisor from Oracle, either.) But I recently came across a little nugget of information that I wanted to share with you regarding [...]
“Signs point to yes.” – Magic 8-Ball prophecy
You have probably heard this line at one point, the one that says “the best DBAs are the ones you never see or hear?” I used to think that was a result of some sketchy personal hygiene choices and later on understood it to mean that if everything [...]