Question of the Month
As a SQL Server DBA, you often work on your own, and sometimes it’s difficult to find someone you can exchange your tips and tricks with. So I’m offering a little competition on my blog with the aim to help each other become exceptional DBAs by sharing our knowledge. Every month, I’ll ask a database administration themed question, and you’re invited to post your answer. At the end of the month, a winner will be randomly selected and you’ll have an opportunity to win a prize (for example, a license for a Red Gate SQL Server tool). All answers to the question will be linked to from this page, and we can start building a bank of solid community tips and best practices!
Get started, and find out what the prize is, by clicking below.
February 2012: If you weren’t a DBA, what would you like to do?
January 2012: What features(s) of SQL Server would you like to learn more about?
December 2011: When reflecting on this year, what has gone well, and what would you do differently?
November 2011: What is your favorite, and not so favorite hardware to run SQL Server on?
October 2011: What one thing do you feel has the greatest impact on SQL Server’s performance?
September 2011: Tell us about your DBA interview experiences: good and bad.
August 2011: How do you manage your Transact-SQL Scripts?
July 2011: What do you think are the most common DBA pain points?
June 2011: How do you monitor your SQL Servers?
May 2011: What’s your backup strategy?
April 2011: Which high availability options(s) do you employ for your SQL Server instances, and why did you choose them?
March 2011: What’s Your Biggest SQL Server Performance Headache?
February 2011: Share with us your “best” restore disaster stories.
January 2011: As a DBA, how do you manage your disk space?
December 2010: What does it mean to be a Proactive DBA?
November 2010: What steps do you include in your database maintenance?
October 2010: Tell us about your favorite experience as a participant in the SQL Server community.
September 2010: What feature is missing from SQL Server that you would most like to see included in the next release?
August 2010: What types of continuing education do you use to keep up with being a DBA?
July 2010: Tell us your story of how you happened to become a DBA.
June 2010: What is your best advice for boosting index performance?
May 2010: What is your favorite DBA joke?
April 2010: What advice would you offer a novice DBA in order to help them along in their career?
March 2010: What is the biggest mistake/problem you have ever found on a SQL Server instance, and how did you fix it?
February 2010: What is one of your best practices for making full backups and transactions log backups of your production databases?
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