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Transact-SQL Scripts for Webinar How to Troubleshoot SQL Server IO Problems
On August 12 2021, I presented a webinar on How to Troubleshoot SQL Server IO Problems. If you missed it, you can watch the webinar on demand https://www.sentryone/webinars. This session covers the industry best practices and workflow for finding and fixing IO problems on SQL Server and Azure SQL data platforms. I'd enjoy…
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Transact-SQL Scripts for Webinar How to Conduct a SQL Server Configuration Review
In mid-May 2021, I presented a webinar on How to Conduct a SQL Server Configuration Review. If you missed it, you can watch the webinar now on demand <How to Conduct a SQL Server Configuration Review (sentryone.com)>. This session encapsulates the sort of content I would share with my own Dev teams back when I was lead of…
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The Service Desk and Parenthood’s Shared Classroom
This past April, my husband and I took on our most exciting and daunting chapter yet: parenthood. Despite the chaos around us, we made the most of our pregnancy and thoroughly enjoyed sifting through baby clothes, putting together his nursery, choosing a name...the works. When it came time to bring our little guy home, I…
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What's Your IT Pro Journey?
Last week, my friend and colleague Leon Adato (t | b) introduced 2021’s IT Pro Day theme “Bring IT On” and observed an IT pros’ life experiences helped to form the foundation of their skillsets and careers, ultimately preparing them for any challenge thrown their way. Whether it’s a pandemic, natural disaster, or a…
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Peer Recognition and Why It Matters
There should always be opportunities to laud our peers’ achievements and good work. One of the things I’ve noticed (at least here in America) is we tend to speak up about negative things and more quietly acknowledge the good. I want us to get better at publicly celebrating the success of our peers. IT Pro Day is nearly…
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You Can Only Fix What You Measure (So Measure What You Want to Fix)
Recently, my colleagues Pete Di Stefano, Ashley Adams, and I hosted a webcast on the topic of capacity planning and optimization. As part of the discussion, we talked about the need to measure the right things to get the correct outcome. Keep in mind my oft-repeated mantra: monitoring is simply the collection of data. You…
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Geekly World News - August 2021
Welcome to August! July saw us celebrating SysAdmin Day, and we hope you all celebrated well. We welcome you to join us in congratulating Tom and Kevin for being renewed as Microsoft MVPs. August will also see many of us sending our kids back to school after the summer. Currently, I’m in full school prep mode myself with…
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Words Matter
One of my biggest pet peeves with AI is the word itself. Words matter, especially in IT. Whether you’re trying to nail down a scope of work for a project, troubleshooting an outage, or even trying to buy a product, if everyone isn’t using the same terminology, you’re headed for trouble. You could even potentially be headed…
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SysAdmin Day 2021: You Are Enough
A year ago, in July of 2020, I started my SysAdmin Day post with the words, “I’m not going to even try to pretend SysAdmin Day arrives this year under conditions anyone would call ‘business as usual.’” Here we are, 12 months later, and a lot has changed, but life (and tech) continue to be extraordinarily not-normal. The…
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IT Pro Day ’21: Bring IT On
IT Pro Day has always been about singing the praises of practitioners across the vast spectrum of tech specialties, from network engineers and systems administrators; to infosec analysts and developers; to storage and virtualization admins; and even to monitoring specialists (whether that’s your whole job or just part of a…