How To Interview–A Quick Guide
This post was originally going to be called “Interview Dos and Don’ts” but I didn’t want it to get confused with interviewing on DOS, or to start a grammar war on the use of Do’s or Dos. I had the...
View ArticleBeing Inappropriate At The Summit
Last year Sean & Jen McCown (you might also know them as the Midnight DBAs) put on a little event called “Inappropriate PASS”. It was a smallish gathering of 30 or so folks who wanted to give and...
View ArticleChanging The Default Email Address In Office 365
Not SQL related today but a good example of PowerShell in action. I recently migrated my personal email over to Office 365 from Microsoft. The migration itself went very smoothly but I ran into an...
View ArticleLife as a DevOps DBA
A few weeks ago Grant Fritchey (b|t) posted about DevOps, the DBA , and the word “No”. Go ahead and read it, I’ll wait right here. Welcome back. As you’ve just read, Grant ranted a little on the...
View ArticleThe Nature of Absurdity
The other night I was adjusting some quorum settings for the WSFC that was underlying a couple of AGs at work. Quorum needed fixing up as we were going to perform a site failover while some network...
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