This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. The main goal for week 3: setup much needed alerts on DTU percentage and disk space percentage for all Azure SQL Databases. This week is about learning Terraform…
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. Last week was the first week of the rest of my life. But really it was the first week of my new job and I installed a lot…
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. I changed to a new job and started it this week. Before I started, I thought of all the things I thought I would want to do when…
I was planning to write a blog post on how you can find ways to be creative in any technical pursuit. Then, I found out from a friend that they generated most of their last blog post from ChatGPT. I had to try it out…
Originally, I was going to write a post on troubleshooting SQL Server. This is because I’m writing up and reviewing a lot of documentation at my current job. I’ll blog on troubleshooting SQL Server soon because it feels like too good a topic to pass…
I got a call saying the database server is inaccessible because tempdb is full. I get online and try to connect because I want to see the error for myself. Even when someone gives me a screenshot; I can’t help myself, I want to see…
I was working on two publisher contracts at the same time. I highly recommend never doing that. One is done, though, and it’s officially published as of September 2022. Check out my database auditing book published with Apress! https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Database-Auditing-Microsoft-Server/dp/1484286332 More to come (hopefully soon) on…
Why doesn’t SQL Server automatically check for the Group –> Object type when you are adding perms via SSMS? This hangs me up almost every time. I think “omg where is the group, why isn’t it there?” and then I remember, oh yeah, I gotta…
published on SQL Server Central https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/standards-matter At first, this was going to be a technical article about an index maintenance horror story. I received an off-hours page. The index maintenance job was running for a long time on a big table. I have an agent…
Just a short update. I haven’t blogged since May, and that’s because I’ve been presenting. Now, I have a publishing contract, so that’s keeping me busy. I want to get back to blogging once I’m done with the book. If you love database auditing as…