I’m proud to announce another three new bloggers at SQLServerPedia, including our first SQL couple!
Jonathan Gardner (Blog – Twitter)
Jonathan is a fellow Houstonian, and he’s a Senior Technology Consultant with Insource Technology. He’s got over a decade of IT experience doing things as diverse as 3D animation to SAN & virtualization administration. He’s the acting DBA for EMS Group. He’s an adrenalin junkie who likes SCUBA, skydiving, and rugby.
Some of his blog posts include:
- Execution Plan Challenge – Jonathan posted a query that was giving him trouble, and included a link to the execution plan. Here’s what I love about blogging: read through the comments, and you’ll see that Pat Wright and Grant Fritchey both took time out of their day to help. Blogging isn’t always about helping others – sometimes it’s about getting help yourself too!
- Using Twitter for Corporate Disaster Recovery – what a great idea! When your corporate email server is down, a private Twitter account posting company updates could be a big help.
- User and Schema Association after Restoring – when you restore a database from one SQL Server instance to another, you can run into some odd problems with logins. Another problem you might run into is missing SQL users or users with the wrong SIDs, and you’ll get more info on that in a minute.
Tim & Lori Edwards (Blog – His Twitter – Her Twitter)
His and hers Twitter, how cute! That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, we have our first SQL Server couple at SQLServerPedia. Tim and Lori are both DBAs in Tucson, Arizona. I work with Tim in the PASS Virtualization Virtual Chapter, and Lori volunteers with the Auditing & Compliance Virtual Chapter.
I had the privilege of meeting Lori at the PASS Summit this year, and she’s a hoot. I look forward to meeting Tim too when I head out to Tucson in a couple of months. I wanna learn more about the 1984 Nissan 300ZX he’s restoring – I used to own a 280ZX myself, and I still miss that car.
Some of their recent posts include:
- Transferring logins and passwords – if you think there’s nothing left to blog about, read this post. It’s a clear, straightforward walkthrough of a problem we’ve all encountered. I wish this post would have been around the first time I tried to set up a disaster recovery server.
- SQL Server Disaster Recovery Options – covers the pros and cons of clustering, database mirroring, log shipping, replication, and DoubleTake.
- The Edwards’ are some people in your neighborhood – Lori sums up the Twitter experience by saying, “I’ve felt more a part of the SQL Server community in the last six months than the previous 5 1/2 years of working as a DBA.”
At SQLServerPedia, we’re bringing out more cool features for syndication in 2010. I look forward to working with all of you, and if you’d like to join up, check out how to syndicate your blog with SQLServerPedia. Happy New Year!