SQLLawman

Well, I’ve been tagged.  SQLBatman has tagged me to post my New Years Resolutions.  I have so much room for professional development I’m not sure where to start.  So I’ll start with some pain points.  So here they are:
1.  Get Certified. I have been in the IT business for over 10 years and have not [...]

I get the occasional question from our Oracle DBAs on how do you do this in MSSQL.  Usually I have little to no idea, so I do what all new DBAs do:  Look it up.  Well, this situation came up today on how can I write a procedure that will query the table and give [...]

I was trying to be the good homeowner.  It had been six months it was time to flush the water heater.  The process was going flawlessly until I was starting to re-light the heater.  I noticed a drip, drip, drip.  There is nothing good that can come from that.  I started to investigate.  The shutoff [...]

Dolphins win the AFC East. From last to first in one season!!!!
Congratulations Dolphins.

I was reading a post by T.J. Belt where he listed 16 things about him.  It was quite interesting.  He has had quite an interesting life.  So here are my 16
1.  I completed a 100 mile bike ride in Honolulu, HI.
2.  I really struggle with self-confidence.
3.  My favorite NFL team was, is, and will be [...]

A few weeks ago the three DBAs at our company were discussing our lack of decent, usable documentation of all the quirky things we have had to do keep our system running.  We had a few choices on how we would do this, we could use our company knowledge base, we could continue the unorganized [...]

Along with our two dogs, we are dog sitting for my brother-in-law as his family is out of the state.  Shipley, their German Shepard is a really good dog.  It has been fun watcing the dynamics of the dogs.  My dog Zoe, American Staffordshire Terrior mix, has assumed the role as alpha female.  This gives [...]

Yep, another SQL Server admin is throwing his words into the ring.  My path to DBAdom did not take the developer to DBA track.  My trail came from the systems side.  I started as a NetWare administrator, then spearheaded the Visine project (Get the ‘red’ out) .  Then I moved into Windows/Citrix administration.  Our Linux [...]