Winner of the April SQL Aloha Contest
DBA Career,Question of the Month | May 4, 2010 | 2:06 pmThis month’s question had 28 responses, and as usual, I found it difficult to select a winner because all of the responses provided valuable information that all DBAs can learn from. This month’s question was: What advice would you offer a novice DBA in order to help them along in their career? If you haven’t ...read more
May Question: What is your favorite DBA joke?
Question of the Month | May 3, 2010 | 6:32 pmPost your responses to the above SQL Aloha Question of the Month in the comments section below (at www.bradmcgehee.com if you are viewing this from a syndicated newsfeed). Please keep your jokes family friendly, and if you aren’t the author of the joke, and you know who the author is, please give the author their due ...read more
Nominations for the 2010 Exceptional DBA Award are Now Open
DBA Career,News | | 6:16 pmSQLServerCentral.com, along with Red Gate Software, are glad to announce that nominations for the 2010 Exceptional DBA Awards are now open. Three years ago, the award was established to help bring about more awareness regarding the importance of the DBA role among the IT community. The first ever Exceptional DBA Award went to Dan McClain ...read more
SQL Server Monitoring Checklist
Database Administration,Database Maintenance | | 12:05 pmI have worked with a lot of organizations who have just a small handful of SQL Server instances. In most of these cases, these SQL Servers contain mission-critical data, but on the other hand, these organizations are not big enough to justify a full-time DBA, so either they subcontract the DBA work to an outside ...read more
Don’t Forget to Register for the Free 24 Hours of PASS
Conferences,PASS,Speaking Schedule | | 9:59 amThe free 24 Hours of PASS event will held May 19 & 20, and includes 24 different one hour presentations on many different aspects of SQL Server, with a special emphasis on SQL Server 2008 R2. You need to register to attend, so sign up today so you won’t forget. My session, the only professional ...read more
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