How Not to be a Cranky DBA: The Blog Series
22August 8, 2012 by Mike Hillwig

I love having a presentation I can keep in my back pocket just in case I need to speak at an event. It’s served me well in both New York and Philly when other speakers cancelled and I offered to jump in.
It was at SQL Saturday in New York that I realized I didn’t have a dedicated blog post that I could refer back to. And that’s when I realized that this could be more than a single post.
What I plan on doing over the next few days is break this presentation into a series of blog posts so you can understand what makes me a cranky DBA and how you can prevent yourself from falling into some of the same situations.
- Cautionary Tale: Beware of the Blogs
- What Makes Mike a Cranky DBA and Why?
- Dont’ Enable Autoshrink. Ever.
- Triggers Don’t Send Mail
- Developers Don’t Touch Production
- Ask Questions Like an Auditor
- Consistency is Key
- Master the SQL Agent
- Use Instant File Initialization
- Plan for when things go Bump in the Night
- Set Min and Max RAM
- Document. Document. Document.
- Your Server is NOT a Workstation
- Set your File Growth Increments
- Test Restores. Frequently.
- Reserved Words are just that, Reserved.
- Limit Access to the SA and Service Account Passwords
- Database Servers are that and that alone
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