DakotaDataWrangler

Voice of the DBA

Are You Working More Hours?
13 hours ago
The Daily WTF

CodeSOD: Connection State
20 hours ago
Brent Ozar Unlimited

[Video] Office Hours: Desert Database Q&A
5 days ago
This Week in Tech

TWiT 1094: Rest in Peace, Buzzkill - How John C. Dvorak Changed Tech Journalism Forever
1 week ago
Paul S. Randal

Presenting a workshop at PASS Summit West in Seattle!
4 weeks ago
Coding Horror

Every Choice Changes Everything: The Show
1 month ago
Kimberly L. Tripp

Wow! Wow! Wow! THANK YOU!
2 years ago
KA0SQL (my Ham Radio blog)

Dabbling in Contesting
6 years ago
DBA Reactions

When you want to bring back the person who wrote the sql code...
6 years ago
Carpe Datum

Somasegar's blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
10 years ago
Computerworld Blogs - Shark Tank

About Me

Dakota Data Wrangler: SQL Server DBA, SciFi Fan, History buff, OIF Veteran, Amateur Radio Operator (Ham) call sign KA0SQL, but most importantly husband and father.

My first experiences with computers were back in high school in the mid-1980s writing BASIC on Commodore computers. Since then I have worn many varied hats: high school shop/computer teacher, National Guard officer, graduate student/teaching assistant and now Data Base Administrator for an international corporation where I get to work on SQL Server instances on three continents.

This blog is written from the perspective of a working DBA. I have learned many lessons over the years by lots of research and testing as well as breaking things then having to figure out how to fix them myself. I am hoping that my posts here will have some value to new DBAs as well as more veteran DBAs that are running into the same issues I have had to deal with in the past.

Thanks for visiting, stop back again soon.