DBA skills are important only if your company’s data is important. Basic skills like backup and restore are the minimum but sometimes you have to understand the technology involved to make decent business decisions.
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I was recently called in to what has to be the most interesting low-availability environment I have ever seen. There was not any single thing that I had not seen before, but to see all of them together in one place was truly amazing.
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Solutions and Projects were one of the really cool features introduced in SQL Server 2005, judging from the responses I got when I showed how it works. Personally, I use them a lot.
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It looks like SQL 2008 may have a slight dependency issue. If you have already installed Visual Studio 2008, you will be blocked from installing SQL 2008 until you install Visual Studio SP1.
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There is an old saying in politics and entertainment that there is no such thing as BAD publicity. Unfortunately, the opposite is true for IT, especially in the Database realm. If your name gets mentioned outside of a technology publication, you can bet it is something bad.
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Microsoft does not have a complete resolution for this problem yet, but they have found some more details. Evidently the problem with SQL Agent failure only occurs on systems using a domain admin account for the SQL Agent Service account.
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We sometimes do things as DBAs that are self defeating, especially regarding high availability. We can get so focused on the One True Thing™ that will solve all of our problems that we don't realize that the way we implement something can end up costing us all the benefit.
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