Argenis Fernandez is a Senior Database Engineer for Survey Monkey. He has worked with SQL Server for over 14 years and enjoys large SQL Server farms, high-end OLTP databases, managing Windows environments, performance troubleshooting, high availability, disaster recovery, following best practices, and PowerShell scripting. Argenis is also a Microsoft Certified Master on SQL Server 2008, an avid Twitter user (you can follow him at @DBArgenis), and occasional blogger on SQL Server topics at
http://www.sqlblog.com/blogs/argenis_fernandez/.
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Does your CHECKDB hurt, Argenis? There is a classic blog series by Paul Randal [blog|twitter] called “CHECKDB From Every Angle” which is pretty much mandatory reading for anybody who’s even remotely considering going for the MCM certification, or its replacement (the Microsoft ...
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A little over a year ago I embarked on an adventure with Microsoft Consulting Services that would have me travel over 160,000 miles throughout the United States. During this time I met great customers, made great friends, and had many lunches, dinners and drinks with members of the larger ...
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Retaking on this blog series after an extended hiatus. I hope you will enjoy today’s topic on documentation. Boring Work? Nope – An Opportunity One of the often neglected and yet extremely important tasks of any DBA is to document his/her environment. I can certainly relate to those of ...
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If you were looking for Paul Randal’s [Blog|Twitter] DR poster and couldn’t
find it anywhere on the net, I have good news for you: I saved a copy on my PC
before it was taken down, and (with Paul’s permission) wanted to make it
available here.
So, without further ado, enjoy the poster.
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(I’m taking a break from my DBA Best Practices blog series to talk about this today – the series continues after the Holidays!)
I love to be proved wrong. Really, I do.
Recently we had a discussion in an distribution list where somebody asked whether a SQL Server 32-bit instance could ...
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