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Top Classic Country Songs for SQL Server DBAs
“I Shot a Server in Reno (just to watch it die)” Johnny Cash
“AlwaysOn on My Mind” Willie Nelson
“WASD, Don’t Take Your Single Thread to Town” Kenny Rogers
“Transactions in the (Replication) Stream” Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
“Stand by Your Maintenance Plan” Tammy Wynette
“Ring Buffer of Fire” Johnny Cash
“Your Deadlockin’ Heart” Hank Williams, Sr.
“Friends in Low Latency Places” Garth Brooks
“Mommas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Virtual Clusters” Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings (cover)
“Crazy” Patsy Cline (Let’s face it, there’s no improving on this one.)
“Here’s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Understands Oracle)” Travis Tritt
“I Wish You Could Have Turned My Head (And Left My Indexes Alone)” Oak Ridge Boys
“I Love the Way You Optimize Me” John Michael Montgomery
“The Night the Lights Went Out in the Datacenter” Reba McEntire
“All My Transactions Take Place in Texas” George Strait
“She’s In Love With the Feature” Trisha Yearwood
“Could I Have This Lock” Anne Murray
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The Consultant Went Down to Georgia – Charlie Daniels
NOT Country…….
Restore All the Way – The Raspberries or The Killers
I think I know that consultant that went down to Georgia!
Make Coworkers Go Away Jamey Johnson ft. Alison Krauss
Hahahahahahha
She thinks my T-SQL’s sexy — Little Kenny Chesney
I’m sure there’s more than one person out there who’s tried to use their TSQL to attract that special person. I hope they tried candy and flowers after that didn’t work.
Don’t corrupt my log, my achy-breaky log – Billy Ray Cyrus
Is Brent missing Texas?
All My Backups Live in Texas
Love it!
You know you’re a DBA when…
10- You frequently look to shop for your wife at the Comma Delimited.
…any takers?
Go rest high upon that cluster. —Vince Gill
90-Hour Week
– Alabama
You can take this job and shove it – Johnny Paycheck
A Little Less Replication – Elvis Presley
not country
DBA killed the Session SPID – The Buggles
Starship – We built this SQLServer
Bruno Mars – The Lazy (DBA) Song https://youtu.be/fLexgOxsZu0