Tickets. Each one helps make the solutions we support more feature complete, bigger, faster, and fixed-er. This month’s invitation from Brent asks us to describe one of the last tickets which was closed to give an insight into our day to day. As an introduction: this is a response from a Development DBA who is relatively new into a […]
Looking back at the year that has been and the year ahead
This month’s invitation from Kay asks us to look back through the year and consider those who we are thankful for. Whilst I should be thanking those close to me for their ongoing support through a lot this year – the fact of it is that they aren’t the type of folks to be reading a blog about SQL […]
Well I’m a little late to the party this month, I got my weeks mixed and was only reading about this month’s T-SQL Tuesday as the community was posting their responses. So here we go, finally. This month’s ask from Josephine was to consider our understanding or expectations from data job roles. When we see […]
Happy new year folks! I hope everyone enjoyed the festive period and was able to get some sort of a break to spend time with those closest to you. This past year has been a busy one personally and quite a journey with this blog too. With that in mind I thought it was worth […]
This month’s invitation from Garry asks us to talk about what SQL related end of year activities we have to look forward to. Garry has included a few typical DBA examples such as archiving or purging out old data, or updating calendars such as dimension tables or even partition schemes for the new year to come. However […]
This month’s invitation from Kenneth Fisher asks us to share our first tech job. As he points out there are a lot of DBAs who don’t start out working with databases and we slowly succumb to the dark side (my words, not his), intentionally or otherwise. During a gap year whilst at university I joined […]
Andy Brownsword 