Every once in a while I get a question from either clients or from folks who’ve attended one of my presentations about just exactly what it is that DBAs should be doing day-to-day. As I intimated at in my previous post on the importance of cle...

I recently received an email asking whether I had a formal listing of roles and responsibilities for what a DBA does in a larger data center. (In the end the person asking for this information was really just looking for a general overview&mdash...

I’ve blogged twice about a serious flaw with SQL Server security on Internet-facing (or accessible) SQL Servers running with SQL Server Authentication Enabled: In my first post, Staying Safe from the Coming Storm, I outlined how SQL Server...

Kalen Delaney and I go back over a decade. Only, she doesn’t know that. In 2000—after teaching myself *cough* Access *cough* and then teaching myself some very rudimentary aspects of SQL Server—I interviewed for a job a MyComputer.com [1]. As ...