Database maintenance is crucial for the health and performance of any database system, including those in Azure. Without regular maintenance, databases can become slow, unstable, and prone to crashes and other errors. Maintenance tasks such as index optimization and statistics updates ensure query processing happens…
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This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. As a DBA, the first six weeks on the job can be challenging and exciting. During this period, you are expected to learn about the company’s processes. You…
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. Week 6 goal: Analyze all Azure SQL Database indexes. Last week, I started pushing out the sp_Blitz scripts that work on Azure. In the world of SQL Server…
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. Week 5 goal: set up Ola index maintenance for all Azure SQL Databases. This week is about learning Flyway. I’m using Flyway because my company requires this for…
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. The main goal for week 4: set up auditing for all Azure SQL Databases. This week is again about learning more Terraform. I’m using Terraform because my company…
This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. UPDATED: I needed to change out resources that will be deprecated, such as azurerm_mssql_database, azurerm_mssql_firewall_rule, and azurerm_mssql_server. Code snippets in this post and GitHub are updated accordingly. The…
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…