Next Door to Derpton - When Your Fellow DBA is a Danger to Databases (Dear SQL DBA)
Category:
database-administration
What do you do when your fellow DBA is a ticking time-bomb of bad decisions, waiting to explode your production environment?
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Lost in Performance Troubleshooting - Perf Triage for SQL Server
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monitoring-troubleshooting
Psssttt – I have an updated blog post on this called the Learner’s Guide to SQL Server Performance Tuning
The SQL Server is slow, what should you do? I answer a reader question and share my strategy for performance troubleshooting.
Bleeding In Edgeville - When Upgrades Come Too Fast (Dear SQL DBA)
Category:
database-administration
In this episode of “Dear SQL DBA,” I answer a question about early adoption of SQL Server, discuss why testing in production isn’t necessarily crazy, and recommend how to handle requests to upgrade your SQL Server to use new features.
Submit a Dear DBA Question
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database-administration
If you’re a database administrator, a developer, or just someone who plays one on TV, I know you’ve got questions. Technical questions. Political questions. Questions about how to handle your coworker with stinky feet who wears flip flops to work. (Been there!)
Now you’ve got a way to get answers. Submit your question to Dear DBA.