Free Poster: Cat DBA Says Not Right Meow
Category:
database-administration
You’ve got 99 problems, and the request coming in ain’t one.
Maybe you need to channel your inner Cat DBA, just for a moment.
Coming to SQL Saturday Portland? Plan a Vacation, too!
Category:
database-administration
SQL Saturday Oregon will be held on Oct 22, 2016 this year– the weekend before the SQL PASS Summit.
As a Portlander, I love it when people come visit my town! Please consider taking a few extra days to enjoy checking out PDX before or after the event.
MAXDOP of Confusion (Dear SQL DBA Episode 8)
Category:
database-administration
Learn how to configure the Max Degree of Parallelism and Cost Threshold for Parallelism settings in SQL Server - and how SQL Server 2014 SP2 and SQL Server 2016 change the way that SQL Server automatically configures some SQL Servers with lots of cores.
Is User Acceptance Testing Covered Under Developer Edition?
Category:
database-administration
Holy mackerel, it is!
How to Level Up Your DBA Career (Dear SQL DBA)
Category:
database-administration
, career
You’re a Junior or mid-level Database Administrator with no obvious career path. How do you grow the right skills to level up your DBA career?
Which Indexes are Disk Based in SQL Server?
Category:
indexing
I was looking through some terms in SQL Server documentation the other day, thinking about what it’s like to learn about SQL Server’s indexes when you’re new to the field. I jotted down a note: B-tree = Rowstore = Disk Based.
And then I realized that’s not quite right.
Index Usage Stats Insanity - the oddities of sys.dm db index usage stats (Dear SQL DBA)
Category:
indexing
SQL Server’s “index usage stats” dynamic management view is incredibly useful– but does it tell you what you THINK it tells you?
I explain the quirks of how sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats works and why the information is so valuable.