The Scary DBA

Certifications are a Bonus, Not A Path to Employment

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

I’ve never been terribly shy about my beliefs about IT certifications. I sincerely believe they are largely a waste of time. I do recognize that one thing they do...

2019-08-26

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DevOps for the DBA, Slide Deck

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

I have an all day seminar I give called “DevOps for the DBA”. If you’re attending, thinking of attending, or you have attended, you might want to have the...

2019-08-21

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How Do You Make DevOps Succceed?

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

I love going to SQLSaturday events because I’m always asked questions that make me think. I was just at SQLSaturday Indianapolis (a great event, if you weren’t there, you...

2019-09-09 (first published: 2019-08-19)

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Profiler and Trace vs. Extended Events

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

It’s a running joke among the more experienced (read, older) Microsoft Data Platform specialists as to whether you’re #teamprofiler or #teamexevents. I’m very much #teamexevents, but I really don’t...

2019-08-28 (first published: 2019-08-19)

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Announcing a New Book: Query Store for SQL Server 2019

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

I’m pleased as punch to be able to share with you the fact that I helped Tracy Boggiano write a whole new book on Query Store. It will be...

2019-08-12

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All Day Seminar on DevOps in Oslo

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

In just a couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting an all day session on DevOps for databases. It takes place on Friday, August 30th. You can click here now...

2019-08-07

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Running Containers In a Virtual Machine

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

The more you work with containers, the more you just want to work with containers. However, there are still reasons to have a virtual machine for some types of...

2019-08-15 (first published: 2019-08-05)

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Teaching DevOps in Indianapolis

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

There is literally nothing I like better than working on automation. Before we had all the cool toys that we have now, I was working on automating database deployments....

2019-08-01

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Sample Azure DevOps Pipelines

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

I’ve said it before and I will repeat myself on this because it’s an important concept: DevOps is about culture and communication, not tools Now, that said, to implement...

2019-07-29

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Importance of Testing

• by Grant Fritchey

• The Scary DBA

I’ve always said if you’re running a script for the first time in a production environment, you’re doing it wrong. Testing is fundamental to technology, yet it is one...

2019-07-22

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