Few days ago I have noticed that there will be a change (again) in certification paths for next generation of SQL servers. So I would like to recommend some thoughts about this from Microsoft Certified Masters (MCM) of Brent Ozar PLF Company.
Michal Tinthofer is the face of the Woodler company which (as he does), is fully committed to complete support of Microsoft SQL Server products to its customers. He often acts as a database architect, performance tuner, administrator, SQL Server monitoring developer (Woodler SMT) and, last but not least, a trainer of people who are developing their skills in this area. His current "Quest" is to help admins and developers to quickly and accurately identify issues related to their work and SQL Server runtime.
A few weeks ago a had task to create procedure for testing workload from production server on test environment.Itsurely wasn't a big deal, but I need to learnmanycustomer employees to repeat this task on regular base. I started to look if somehow I could
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Read moreIntermittent SQL Server errors are among the most difficult problems to troubleshoot. A job can run successfully hundreds of times and then suddenly start failing. The same error may return days or weeks later, with no obvious change in the code.
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