By Tamera, on May 8th, 2012% This month Chris Shaw (blog|twitter) brings to us a deep topic for T-SQL Tuesday. He’s asking us to talk about DBA Ethics, you don’t have to be a DBA just a SQL Professional. Thanks Chris for hosting and getting us thinking.
So here we are at another fine T-SQL Tuesday. When Kerry mentioned that he was going to get busy and write last night I asked him what the topic was and he said “DBA Ethics”. From there my mind went crazy thinking about Ethics, how many times I have had mine challenged and what all of this would mean. He stayed up late and worked on his blog post . . . → Read More: A DBA’s Ethics T-SQL Tuesday #30
By Tamera, on March 13th, 2012% Argenis Fernandez was ever so kind as to host TSQL2sDay this month and the question he asked was:
Are you specialized? On something? Or anything at all? Has that been a good or a bad thing? Why? Are you the SQL guy at work? Or the one who does everything? Do you code? And configure wireless routers at work also? If you had to pick one thing to specialize on, what would it be?
So, in this installment of T-SQL Tuesday I’d like to ask you to blog about your experience. Tell us why you specialized, or why you’d like to specialize. If you don’t think that specialization is . . . → Read More: TSQL2sDay – Jack of All Trades…
By Tamera, on November 14th, 2011% I have been to conferences in the past, so I didn’t quite feel like a “first timer”. PASS held several things for first timers and I opted not to go to them, I did hear from my co-workers that they enjoyed the activities. I thought I had prepared for everything on this trip but I was wrong. I really had no idea that I would get to hang out with the cool kids and that by doing so I would have to learn to live on a few hours of sleep. I didn’t know that I would need more than a cure for my hang-over. I wasn’t prepared for the . . . → Read More: Post #SQLPASS
By Tamera, on November 8th, 2011% I have deteremined that my stress level the last 1.5 months has been pretty high and I am sure it revolves around #SQLPASS. Here let me explain.
First there is my company that made me dance around like a puppet and sit on pins and needles while waiting to find out if I was going to get to attend this year. You see last year the “boys” went and I didn’t get to. One of them, who happens to be my boss’s boss would come by and rub it in that he was going and that I wasn’t then I got the drop by stories from PASS for months after. There . . . → Read More: Leading up to #SQLPASS
By Tamera, on November 7th, 2011% #sqlfamily
It started feeling real on Monday night of #sqlpass week. It was at a very late dinner with @airbornegeek and my co-workers; we were sitting at The Tap House when all of the sudden (you know at nearly midnight) walked in a large group of my favorite people in the #sqlcommunity. I walked over to say HI to all these “strangers” I had never met in person, there were hugs and laughs and OMG! Everywhere. I walked back to our table and said “Guys MY FAMILY is here, we have to go sit with them!” they replied with “we are going to the hotel and to bed”. I followed . . . → Read More: #SQLFAMILY
By Tamera, on May 2nd, 2011% “I got 99 problems but a disk ain’t one”
I am not a DBA, and I have only pretended to be one after KLT had moved on to TN. But I have seen all of these items cause problems for databases and as a customer of these databases I found it to be extremely annoying.
users who don’t care users who have too many rights USERS who have no knowledge of how a DB works or how to write SQL and those who have no idea what could make a query slow A bad data model Forcing size limit on a DB and requiring a DB to fix it. BAD! . . . → Read More: Meme Monday 5/2
By Tamera, on April 4th, 2011% Why yes I would LOVE to troubleshoot your crappy code!
Thanks TOM for something so fun and differnent. And yes, it’s Tamera like camera but no, I don’t have someone to tag.
By Tamera, on January 11th, 2011%
As part of my 2011 resolutions I feel the need to participate in T-SQL Tuesday (we’ll get to more about that later). First some of you reading this are expecting a recipe and some FOOD PORN, sorry not today I am a geek and sometimes like to show that off and today is it!!! T-SQL Tuesday was started by Adam Machanic (guess what? He has a blog and is on twitter!) and the basic rule is that someone new each month host and chooses a topic. This month it is our friends MIDNIGHTDBA (Jen and Sean – guess what they blog and twitter too!!). If you are able to . . . → Read More: #TSQL2sDay Resolutions
By Tamera, on November 2nd, 2010%
2.5-3 years ago I would of answered this question with some smart-ass response about how DBA skills are really only necessary if you ARE a DBA. But 2 years ago KLT (@airbornegeek) scored a job in Nashville and left me in Indiana holding 2 houses, 2 dogs, 2 yards, a pool, 2 systems at work to admin and of all things the databases to take care of. At that point I became the most beloved accidental DBA. Don’t get me wrong I was really bored at work and how much of your time can you really spend looking for a job. I decided to use this opportunity to build . . . → Read More: TSQL Tuesday – Why are DBA skills necessary?
By Tamera, on May 13th, 2010% Well the last two days have been REALLY long days. Tuesday I went to work. I did such a great job of wrapping things up that I had nothing to do for the last hour that I was there. Yeah fun times, I had to stay to make sure everyone saw I was there. Then it was off to the bank, home to pack the coolers, load the car and get the dogs to the vet. That didn’t go as planned. Took 1 hour to get to the bank and home. SUCK! So finally at about 10 minutes until 6 pm we rolled out of our Arrington home south bound . . . → Read More: STS-132 Atlantis Last Ride – We are here.
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