As a Senior DBA I’m occasionally asked to participate in interviews for other prospective data professionals. Full disclosure: I actually love doing this because, and this may sound odd, I really enjoy asking people questions. Unlike most of my IT colleagues, my university studies featured a huge helping of journalism classes, so interrogating, err, interviewing is something that comes naturally to me.
Database monitoring on zero budget
For most of my career I’ve been the only DBA, which means each and every time one of my colleagues encountered a perception that the database is slow, they would form the words “Hey Jeff. . .” As Stan Lee said, with great power comes great responsibility. Which is another way of saying in times of strife, both real and imagined, your Inbox and Voicemail get flooded.
Give tempdb a chance
If you’re a DBA, you probably secretly wish that you could have one of those cool red and black portrait graphics like those folks at Brent Ozar Unlimited get. But that’s not important right now. You probably also enjoy the privilege of performing the installation of every new SQL Server instance. And if you don’t, well, you can still keep reading, I guess.
Hey, I’m new at this SQL blogging stuff. I’m still working out the kinks.
Why I have this here blog
This should be slightly more interesting than “Hello Google!”
I am starting this very blog as a direct result of my experience on SQL Cruise. No joke. Two pertinent facts:
- I’ve been a SQL Server DBA for the better part of two decades.
- I’ve been writing about Indycar racing at my own blogs and others, including one sponsored by the series, for nearly a dozen years.
And yet, I’ve never put SQL Server and blog together and written about being a DBA. Go figure.
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Hello world!
Somehow, when starting a blog, “Hello World” seems overly optimistic. I mean, it’s not like THE ENTIRE WORLD is reading this. Right now it’s pretty much just me, maybe my wife, and a few search engines.
“Hi Honey!” seems weird. Maybe I should go with “Hello Google!”