For my first blog about SQL Saturday #132, I wanted to review some of the good advice I received from the pre-conference training on Friday prior to the event. The pre-con titled “Demystifying Database Administration Best Practices” was presented by Microsoft Certified Masters Robert Davis (twitter|blog) and Argenis Fernandez (twitter|blog). Some of these I knew, some…
Tag: Disaster Recovery
Saturday SQL Schoolhouse in Honor of World Backup Day
SQL Schoolhouse! Today’s installment of the Saturday SQL Schoolhouse is brought to you in honor of World Backup Day, a day every DBA should celebrate! However, DBAs know that World Backup Day should be practiced daily! Here are some great backup articles for you to peruse. Enjoy! Introduction to Backup and Restore Strategies in SQL…
Backup and Recovery
On the drive in this morning, I was reflecting on what I needed to go over with my junior DBA today in his learning path (channeling Yoda). Backup and Recovery is so vitally important to what we do on a daily basis that I really need to drive that home to him. Therefore, I thought…
The Kind of DBA I Want to Be
I was a big fan of the original Iron Chef tv show, as in the original show from Japan. And my favorite Iron Chef was Iron Chef Japanese Rokusaburo Michiba. If you don’t know the show, it probably seems redundant to refer to a Japanese chef on a Japanese tv show as Iron Chef Japanese,…
Optimizing Database Restores
You can Google/Bing/AltaVista and get a lot of results for speeding up your backups. Those results will include using third-party tools, performing file and filegroup backups, differential backups and the like. Some of the more technical blogs will talk about adjusting some of the backup parameters to improve throughput. There’s really not much written (that…
T-SQL Tuesday #19–What A Disaster
Allen Kinsel (blog|twitter) is running this months T-SQL Tuesday and wanted to know about preparing or recovering from a disaster. I thought this might be a good opportunity to tell a little story of how a disaster sucked up around three weeks of my life a couple of years ago. It was a normal day,…