It’s the start of the month of May, or at least the first Monday in May. Hopefully you aren’t nursing too much pain from a weekend that included two fairly dissimilar holidays. First, there was Star Wars Day on Saturday. Followed by Cinco de Mayo on Sunday. There should have been something in there for [...]
After working on this monthly checklist for over a year, I’ve recently discovered that there isn’t anything that we should be doing with our SQL Server databases. Apparently, the platform is completely and absolutely self-maintaining and provides built-in disaster recovery without any effort on your part. Along with all of these features, you won’t be [...]
It’s the first Monday of the month, do you know where your servers are? Hopefully, they are still in your data center. If not, I’m not sure this post will help you out, so you better just call the police. But if they are in your data center, then do you know how they are [...]
February is a short month… and if you are following the Monday’s you know that today’s the second Monday of the not the first. The first Monday is when this update is usually due out. Unfortunately, I was fairly sick last week and didn’t get to working on this blog post. I should have had a [...]
Today is the first Monday of 2013. Do you know if your servers are ready to take on the first month of the new year? Have you figured out if you have the hardware and capacity to make it through the next year? You should know this and, as a DBA, you should have a [...]
It’s a bit past the first Monday in December, but better a week late than no checklist and update post at all. The main purpose of this post is to serve as a reminder that, if you haven’t, you need to be checking your SQL Server environment on a monthly basis. For a checklist of [...]
Last week was the PASS Summit and there were a few cool announcements made. One in particular was the release of SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 – that means it’s time to really start looking at what this update does for your environment. Also, if you are one of those that believes in the [...]
October already. The PASS Summit is coming soon and we’re entering the time of the year that many of us dig in to learn something new. When it comes to learning something new, we often will focus on what is interesting, new or unique. But what about learning about something that you might not be [...]
Summer is beginning to wrap up for those of us in the northern hemisphere and were finally to August. Maybe the use of “finally” is a little much. If you are like me, you likely feel like we got to August too soon. It seems the older I get the less time it takes to [...]
The year is half over and for many of us, specifically those in the United States, it’s a tricky week to get work done. With a national holiday on Wednesday, the US Independence celebration, a lot of us will be left with a partial work week and a real challenge in tracking down people needed [...]
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