Monthly Archives: December 2015
Troubleshooting a Full Transaction Log
Transaction logs are one of the most critical parts of a database and should be managed as such. Running out of disk space can cause application errors and even database corruption. If your transaction log is continually growing there are...
I love you Agile – here is my Waterfall breakup Letter
I came across an agile retrospective activity that asked participants to write a breakup letter for parts of your process that you wanted to break up with or a love letter to the parts of your process that had a...
[We] ain’t afraid of no [retrospective] (Retrospective Activity)
I previously blogged about how important I think retrospectives are, and you can read it here. We recently decided to try and mix up our team EOS Level 10 meeting slightly by replacing the Issue Identification and Resolution portion of...
Using visual aids for actionable reflection
Without reflection there can be no learning. Reflection is the time when we look at what we have done, including actions and behaviors, and evaluate what worked or did not work for a situation. This could be as individuals, a...
Defensive Database Programming
There I was minding my own business having breakfast and reading SQL Server Central‘s editorial when I saw a link to Alex Kuznetsov’s Defensive Database Programming book. I read the book a year or so ago, and much of it will not come as any...