I always think it’s a great idea to ask for help. When I was a kid, my parents taught me that it’s always a good idea to ask for help – the worst that will happen is they’ll say no. In IT there is too much to learn so I always think it’s a great idea […]
Recently, I did regular patching of SQL Server, upgrading to SQL 2014 SP2 CU3. Normally this goes without any problems and we had tested it out in our test environments, but this time it took all reporting services offline. What happened? We upgraded the DR server like normal, but in doing so it upgraded the SQL […]
As part of starting writing blog posts, I wanted to force myself to stop and reflect on what I have learnt to do. This is something that I’ve always been bad at doing and I think that’s true for many in the IT world. As a DBA/Programmer I tend to solve a problem and then […]
