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Midnight DBA

Sean McCown and Jen McCown

Tutorial videos and our live weekly webshow, DBAs@Midnight, from the MidnightDBAs. Here we focus on SQL Server and Powershell, but we cover all things related to DBAs.

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1:02:27

You got munkey lips

Midnight DBA ·

2011/02/07

Here we are on the back end of SQLSaturday #57 in Houston. We decided to make a party out of it and bring along Wes Brown and Patrick LeBlanc. We discuss backups, GoDaddy, and Joe Celko. It was bigtime fun.

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1:02:27

Sean gets 69

Midnight DBA ·

2011/01/31

Tonight we talk about a big downtime at Pilgrim's Pride, 24-HOP sessions, a yearly downtime report, ownership chains, cross joins, and much more.

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57:31

Best Backup Class Evar: 1 of 6

Midnight DBA ·

2011/01/20

Here's the first of a series of backup/restore classes taught at the NTSSUG. This series is meant to cover everything about backups... or at least as much as we can squeeze into 6 sessions. You'll learn how to put together an enterprise backup solution, tune your backups for maximum performance, and manage them across your company no matter how many servers you have. The file used for this class <a href="http://MidnightDBA.ITBookworm.com/EventScripts/BackupClass1.zip">can be found

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57:27

Hottub of Bellydancers

Midnight DBA ·

2011/01/17

This is probably our best show to date. Not only do we crown a new MVP, but we have so many HUGE gueses you'll slap your mama. This show is just fun and you'll never know who calls in.

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1:03:02

Sledgehammer of Justice

Midnight DBA ·

2011/01/10

This is our New Year's eve episode and we had plenty of fun. There's some good techie stuff in there too. And at the end, we have a very nice surprise with a sledgehammer.

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15:37

Hack-attak a damaged DB

Midnight DBA ·

2011/01/05

What do you do if you have a set of data and log files you can't attach because the log is damaged? Here I show you a way to attach it, fix it, and get going again. Paul Randall also discussed this in his blog here: <a href="http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post/Disaster-recovery-101-hack-attach-a-damaged-database.aspx" target = "_blank">Hack-attack a damaged DB</a>

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08:54

Sum DB Sizes with Powershell

Midnight DBA ·

2011/01/04

Quite often it can be useful to not only get a list of DB sizes, but also sum it up in the last line. This can be useful for estimating backup file sizes, server sizing and more. Here I'll show you a couple ways to sum up DB sizes so take your pick.

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1:03:02

Useless Superpowers

Midnight DBA ·

2011/01/03

I think we had a lot of fun this week. We talked about useless superpowers, rules for presenting to techies, and stuff we got for x-mas... and more.

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14:15

Replace sp_MSForEachDB with Powershell

Midnight DBA ·

2010/12/29

A user request came in to write something in powershell that would replace sp_MSForEachDB. I took it a step further and showed you how to make it even more flexible for an enterprise environment.

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1:08:10

Smell my Guitar

Midnight DBA ·

2010/12/27

This week we talk about great smells you'd never find in a shampoo, and follow that with a really good discussion on the 24HOP women's edition and compare that to maybe a black or Indian edition, and we unveil a new award.

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1:08:10

Stallin SQL like a Mofo

Midnight DBA ·

2010/12/20

There's just no substitute for a good story and tonight Sean tells one about an interview he just had. We also talk about cluster problems, heaps, and mentos and coke.

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47:45

Adam Machanic has soft hands

Midnight DBA ·

2010/12/13

We love talking to Adam. He's such a cool dude and it just so happens that he really knows his stuff too. I had a hard time compiling this vid because something corrupted it toward the end, but I can still give you 47mins of it.

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1:13:16

Sexual Harassment

Midnight DBA ·

2010/11/29

This week we have Eric Humphrey in the studio and while we get different grooves on, the main topic is sexual harassment.

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51:04

Bathrobe Bonanza

Midnight DBA ·

2010/11/29

This is our post-Thanksgiving episode. Today we talk about why Bing sucks, jr. DBAs, and the cloud.

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1:04:58

Merkin Glue

Midnight DBA ·

2010/11/22

This is our show at the end of PASS 2010 and we have Nic Cain in our hotel room. Come have a look while things degenerate into our usual childish antics.

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28:31

Denny 'Five Fingers' Cherry

Midnight DBA ·

2010/11/17

Denny is one of our best friends at PASS. We were all so tired that we cut the talk short and meant to get back to it but we never did. Before we left though we did manage to talk about some of the new features announced by MS at the keynote.

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55:18

Grant Fritchey is our Hero

Midnight DBA ·

2010/11/17

What can we say about Grant that isn't already in the police report? He's just an interesting guy. Come see us discuss query tuning and Kenpo with Grant.

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48:10

The Mark Souza Sandwich

Midnight DBA ·

2010/11/17

If you don't know Mark Souza, you should. He's one of the coolest guys we know and one of the smartest guys other than myself you'll ever meet. Mark is the head and the founder of the SQL CAT team at MS. Come see what we were able to get out of him.

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1:08:00

Steve Jones in the House!!

Midnight DBA ·

2010/11/17

We hooked up with Steve Jones of SQLServerCentral.com in an empty ballroom we hijacked the night before PASS. He's so laid back we decided to stay a cuddle for a while after filming.

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1:14:43

No Management DBs

Midnight DBA ·

2010/11/15

I suppose this is officially our Halloween episode. Come along as we discuss whatever it is we talked about here.

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