When I am asked how I got to where I am in my career, or how to make the transition to being a DBA, I usually have to think about my answer before I respond.  I realize that most people won’t be able to follow the same path that I took to get where I am.  This is not to say that I am special, or I did something extraordinary to get where ...

Less than 24 hours ago I blogged about a veritable nightmare I had with CHECKDB and the resulting findings that it wasn’t actually a corruption problem but instead a new issue in a third party tool that we use on our production servers.  This little problem actually answered a long standing question that was posed to me by Andy ...