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Holy mackerel, it is!
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?
You’re setting up SQL Server log shipping for disaster recovery. What else do you need to do to best prepare for a failure?
Dear SQL DBA, What do you say to a SAN admin when you think that the billion dollar SAN *may* be the bottleneck and you just want to look into it. What are the technical things I need to say to make them believe there might be something to my questions?
What do you do when your fellow DBA is a ticking time-bomb of bad decisions, waiting to explode your production environment?
I received a question from a reader who was testing out a partitioning architecture:
We are testing table partitioning using one filegroup per partition. When we merge a boundary point, we see that partition_number changes in sys.partitions. Does this mean that data movement is occurring?
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