Today I want to talk about my job, the day job. As a Jack-of-All-Trades DBA, I am responsible for backups, security, production releases, data fixes, architecture, schema approvals, development (both...
To me, my SQL Saturdays posts aren’t just a method of information sharing or a way to teach new SQL Server database administrators. I also use it as a repository...
Welcome back to SQL Saturday’s. Today I wanted to discuss a T-SQL trick I frequently use to search for the existence of records. SQL Server has a fun function calls...
What is a dirty backup? When I’m developing code for resolving data problems, I can’t always restore the dev database from a production backup. Other people have code in Dev,...
SQL Server maintenance can be a pain. There are so many moving parts that checking every single possible maintenance point takes forever. Being the lazy DBA that I am, I...
It’s been a while since I did a post about my day job, so I thought it was about time. The subject? Math. Everyone likes to hear about math, right?...
One thing that constantly amazes me is how few troubleshooting skills many coders have. To me, it’s as natural as breathing to go through one step at a time, commenting...
It’s that time of year again. This time it’s SQL Saturday in Orlando. This coming Saturday, October 17th. And yet again, I have been shanghied into teaching. Don’t get me wrong,...
Brandie Tarvin is an author and tie-in writer and a copy editor. In addition to her original fiction, she has written SQL Server articles, Shadowrun: The Role Playing Game sourcebook material and fiction as well as a piece for Hasbro’s Transformers. She currently lives in Florida with her family and is owned by two cats.
