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 