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PODCAST

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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All Episodes

01:05:03

Happy NutUp Or ShutUp Day

Midnight DBA ·

2013/08/23

We were live from SQL Saturday Oklahoma this week! Ben Affleck is the new Batman, we give the first Nut Up or Shut Up award...oh yeah, and we also found time to talk some SQL.

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01:02:07

The Longest Time

Midnight DBA ·

2013/08/16

Season five! Season five! Season five! We're delighted and enthralled and unfocused, just like the last four seasons! We have a new skit, gave an award to the NSA itself, and....well, take a look and see. SEASON FIVE, BABY!

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00:58:35

Girl Talk

Midnight DBA ·

2013/06/14

We had a big discussion on WIT with a call from SirSQL. We also talked about a good way to get your entire team on the same page about their goals. It can also go a great way to seeing why everybody's not on the same page. Overall a pretty good show.

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01:01:00

Delete^10

Midnight DBA ·

2013/06/07

We have a new intern! News included NSA and mind-blowing technology. Jen finds a psychic tech product, Sean's ex-co-worker has very strong opinions. Companies don't take maintenance into account, like, ever. We had a good talk on schemas and when to use them.

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01:04:00

Fappy

Midnight DBA ·

2013/05/31

Jen's been consluting for a year now, Sean's impressed with the telecom stuff at work, and we discuss some ideas for a show mascot. The Tech Tip is on Powershell, Jen is unhappy with Idera's auditing tool, but adores printing from her phone.

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01:02:48

Like a Boss

Midnight DBA ·

2013/05/24

Today we had a minor interview embarassment, proper punishments for IT sins, and a positive job leaving experience.Jen gave the weather report, and Sean talks about someone WHO IS EFFECTIVE AT HIS JOB. Weird. Tech tip: Relog. Sean interviewed level 8 wizard. No, he was an 8 at wizards.Jen praises Idera support.

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01:02:56

DoppelGanger

Midnight DBA ·

2013/05/17

On the show tonight, we talk have an interview skit, a talk about forced cluster disasters, messing with developers, and a lot of mentions of TV shows that replaced actors without explanations. Weird.

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01:01:08

Upgrade or Die!

Midnight DBA ·

2013/05/10

Tonight we had 'ultimate' news, a mild production disaster story, degrees of DBAs, and a Powershell tech tip. We had a simply lovely talk about workplace discrimination. Sean tells us about an UPGRADE OR DIE policy. A solid, solid show!

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01:05:54

Hey Scotty!

Midnight DBA ·

2013/05/03

This was a big shw! We had a resume review, an interview skit, a visit from ItsNic, talks about filling drive space and being effective and lazy at the same time. Big, big show.

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01:07:23

Sloppy Seconds

Midnight DBA ·

2013/04/26

This was a big shw! We had a resume review, an interview skit, a visit from ItsNic, talks about filling drive space and being effective and lazy at the same time. Big, big show.

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01:08:41

CISPA Report

Midnight DBA ·

2013/04/19

In this episode we have production hijinks, a review of Sean's Trainsignal course, and some interesting info about Bit.ly. Jen tells us why we should care about CISPA (and what to do). And we have a real live resume review! The tech tip was on Powershell object properties.

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01:05:43

Junior Associate Janitor

Midnight DBA ·

2013/04/12

We talked about the importance of attribution, and the perfect techie house. Sean says you should check out Kendal Van Dyke's SQL Power Doc. And we had a recruiter skit, and discussed what makes you work harder.

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01:04:03

Stay Gold

Midnight DBA ·

2013/04/05

Tonight we held a brief memorial for a fallen fellow, Alan Weber (@aauugold). We also talked about cycling error logs, a stuck replication database, handling your business the way you should, and autogrow. Tech tip was on 1NF (atomicity), and we had an interview skit! AauuuuuGOLD!

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01:03:23

The One Armed Shoe Tyer

Midnight DBA ·

2013/03/29

This week we talk about what would happen if you ran your life like Sean's last company ran IT. And I believe we also do gross bathrooms at work, and even managed to throw in some techie stuff.

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01:12:24

Sean's Killing Spree

Midnight DBA ·

2012/06/15

This week we have a big collection of end user mistakes, stupid vendors, chewing out DBAs, and more. Oh, and we unveil our newest award.

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01:01:02

A New Leaf

Midnight DBA ·

2012/06/08

We've decided to become a kinder, gentler show. We're no longer going to be sarcastic, hurtful, or unsupportive... for this show anyway. This is going to be a fun ride.

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8:40

Change Startup Params in Powershell

Midnight DBA ·

2012/06/01

I heard someone today say that you can't change startup parameters in Powershell. So I made this vid to set the record straight.

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5:49

Drop Tables in Powershell

Midnight DBA ·

2012/05/25

Today I'm dropping tables based off of a regex expression and by rowcount. Good stuff here. The power of the shell shines through with the easy regex expression.

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4:10

Truncate Tables in Powershell

Midnight DBA ·

2012/05/25

Here I show you how to truncate a mass of tables in the same schema. Of course, you don't have to limit it to a single schema if you don't want.

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10:07

Server Configuration Settings in Powershell

Midnight DBA ·

2012/05/25

I love making vids on the trickier stuff and this one is it. Here we're talking about duplicating sp_configure in Powershell. It's pretty easy, but there's a trick to it.

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