Is there a heartbeat?
Dammit Jim, I’m a DBA not a doctor! On our servers we have heartbeats in our SQL Agent Jobs. A heartbeat is a start and end step that we put into each of our jobs. If you do use it, do you use the same terminology or do you have a different word for it? [...]
Where Did My Blah Go?
A week or so ago I was helping a coworker. He had just upgraded to SQL2K8 R2 and needed to get into the options for LogShipping. They weren’t there. A quick Bing search showed the options were accessible exactly as we thought but we still couldn’t find them. We checked all of the SQL2K8 R2 [...]
Disabling IntelliSense
Unfortunately for me, IntelliSense is not very intelligent. It constantly gets in my way. I wanted to disable it since it is enabled by default but my search did not return any results that could help me out. I knew it had to be simple so I crawled through each of the options in the [...]