Tag oh god he’s in the datacenter now

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The Terror of Isolation

Jul 28, ’09 12:26 PM

I work in isolation. I don’t mean physical isolation – I have coworkers and we talk and go to lunch and do all kinds of coworker things. I work in physical isolation from other practicing database professionals. My manager is a former DBA, but he hasn’t worked with SQL Server newer than SQL 2005 and [...]

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Building a new SQL 2008 box

Jun 9, ’09 5:44 AM

I have a lucky, and rare, chance coming my way in about a week: I will be given the opportunity to design and install the production SQL servers at work.
Here’s the fun part – I’ve never done this before, at least not on a production machine.
What best practices, secret tricks, or hare-brained schemes do [...]

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