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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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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Digital World, Digital Locks One of the biggest digital assets that any company has is its secrets. These include passwords, key rings, certificates, and any other digital asset used to protect another asset from tampering or unauthorized access. As a DBA, you are very likely to manage ...
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