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“Ex-Admin Deletes All Customer Data and Wipes Servers”
My headline is borrowed from a headline on bleepingcomputer.com. This just happened to a Dutch hosting provider in 2017. You can read the article. Actually, you must read the article. If you didn't here's the basic gist: An administrator quits or was fired or...
Hey Techies – Get Out of Debt
How do you eat an elephant? I'll tell you at the end if you don't already know. In the meantime let's talk about another elephant - the one in the room - you are in debt. In some way, you're probably in debt right now. Maybe you owe to student loan or credit card...
Don’t be too Afraid to Grow Your Career
What are you afraid of trying? Most people who are great at something were afraid before they started, too. Sure everyone does different things with their fears. And some people just don't have that fear, but I bet most do. In this quick video, I talk about a few...
You are Free: Career Lessons from a farm fence
When I put Database technology down, I run a 20-acre farm with my family. I love it. It's fun watching the kids learn from the experience. It's fun learning my own life lessons and illustrations from the chores and animals. A farm scare today made me think of you....
SQL Server Security Basics
This isn't the complete guide to securing a SQL Server, but these are some of the more common things I bump into and wish I wouldn't when it comes to SQL Server Security. Read these practices, understand them by searching the web or come here and ask me for questions...
SQL Server Max Memory Best Practices
In this Straight Up SQL Server Tips series, we're going back to basics. Many of these are findings in our SQL Server Health Assessments or things I bump into on the forums and Q&A sites when I'm out answering questions. Today we're talking a bit about the SQL...
How To Manage The SQL Server Transaction Log File
"Help! My SQL Server transaction log file has run out of space on my SQL Server!", "Why is my SQL Server Log file so big?", "How do I shrink my SQL LDF?" - I hear these questions all the time. I've been blogging since 2009 and way back then I wrote some posts about...
DevOps: Don’t Forget The Ops
I want to commend the team at GitLab.com - they had an issue that took down a key database and everything else with it effectively and when they came back, there was data not coming back. This happens. This happens in "Traditional" 1.0 IT companies (ask my usual...
Optimize For Ad Hoc Workloads – Enable or not?
With today's Straight Up SQL Server tip, I want to talk about a setting I have so far only ever recommended to enable: Optimize for Ad Hoc Workloads. Rather than just make a suggestion, I want to keep in the spirit of the tips for beginner approach to the series and...
Dr. Cloud-Move or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cloud
With apologies to Mr. Kubrick for my title, I'll give you a little honest backstory. I've been working with SQL Server for 17 years now. Mostly in the box, on-premises. I've done all sorts of things with SQL Server. Always heading back to DBA, performance tuning, high...
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