I am a believer that regular rotation of passwords is an important security measure. I worked at an organization that, when they were small, would use the SQL Server database engine service account to run SQL Agent jobs and other…
The ability to script out the definitions of objects is valuable to any DBA. Most of us are intimately familiar with SQL Server Management Studio’s capabilities in this regard. Simply right-click on your object and navigate to the “Script object…
Over the years, I’ve found my professional maturity to be a growing entity. One piece of evidence of this is how I react to being the most knowledgeable person in the room. Now, understand I’m not being arrogant, I mean, “the room,” literally. I…
Today I had an odd experience with installing Windows Server 2012 R2. I downloaded the ISO from the MSDN subscriber’s downloads. Then I got the product key from the same line item on the download page, this makes me assume…
My life in the work force began like many others, as a waiter at a Greek restaurant in my home town, Newtown, CT. After graduating from high school I ran off to join the Navy so that I could afford…
Today I had a co-worker come to my desk wondering why his service was getting a permissions error when selecting from a table. His confusion was rooted in the fact that his service has been using this stored procedure for…
I have struggled to learn how to stop feeding the monkeys for quite some time. I’m happy to see that commitment is being listed as a major factor here. I find lack of commitment to be far more common then…
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP2 is now available Build number: 11.0.5058.0 Microsoft SQL Server 2012 service packs are cumulative updates and upgrade all editions and service levels of SQL Server 2012 to SP2. This service pack contains up to and including…
I’ve been asked, several times, what skills a person should work on if they wanted to enter the IT field. The specific question changes depending upon if the question was targeted at DBA, developer, systems administrator, or testing skills. When…
Problem: A co-worker requested help with a query today… Derik, I have an Email table with a list of email addresses per person record. There is an ordinal column that is base zero but I decided to make the index in the…