I had the honor of traveling to Tampa Florida this past weekend and presenting a session to a great group of people. I first need to mention what a great job the facilitators did organizing this event. Jose Chinchilla (@sqljoe)and Pam Shaw (@PamShaw) are who I worked with the most but there were countless other […]
What PASS means to me.
I first heard of PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) in connection with the PASS Summit. I had a several co-workers who had attended the PASS Summit before. Several years later we had a local PASS Chapter started in my town and I started attending the meetings when I could. It was really great to […]
Checking Backups
Over the past two years I have acquired quite a few database servers that I am responsible for. We have many standards among the database group I am a part of, things such as standard drive configurations (drive for data files, log files, tempdb, and backup), lock down scripts, maintenance jobs, etc. Over time I […]
SQL Saturday 48 – Columbia SC
I had the opportunity to attend another SQL Saturday event and I am very happy that I didn’t let not feeling well stop me from driving over 600 miles round trip for the event. I met some awesome people and got to hear some great sessions. After three Powershell sessions I finally feel comfortable enough […]
Inheriting a neglected DB
About a month ago I was in a position to take over support of a large database and handle the upgrade from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005. The database is approx 800 GB in size. Not the largest DB in the world, but the largest for the company I work for. Upon taking over the […]
About Me
This is my first blog, it will be short and sweet. My name is Tim, I am married with three kids. I am a SQL Server DBA and I love what I do. I have only been in full time DBA role for two years, prior to that I was a Sys Admin for 11 […]