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Fun Server Names You've Seen
1. Skywalker, Solo, Leia, Kenobi, Vader, Chewbacca …
2. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Chekov, Uhura, Sulu …
3. Frodo, Bilbo, Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli …
4. Logan, Xavier, Wolverine, Jean Grey, Beast, Mystique …
5. SQLFEE, SQLFI, SQLFO, and SQLFUM
6. A server called Server. My little girl has a dolly called Dolly and a mouse called Mouse, but somehow Server
isn't nearly as cute.
7. Named after Quark particle orientation or flavor: Up, Down, Strange, Charm, Bottom, and Top
8. Each server was named after a precious metal (Gold, Silver, etc.) and each workstation was named with a Periodic Table abbreviation (Tn, Pb, etc.).
9. DigDug, MoonPatrol, Joust, KungFu, Frogger, and Pong
10. HOMEY1, HOMEY2, DOWNTOWN, UPTOWN, MOTOWN
What's the Highest Number of SQL Server Systems You've Ever Seen in One Environment?
1. I'm too old to count that high.
2. 100,000
3. 49,000
4. 12,000
5. 5,000
6. 3,000
7. 2,500
8. 1,100
9. 500
10. 2
What's the Number-One Thing You Should Never Do to a SQL Server System?
1. Submerge it in water.
2. Shrink the database!
3. Let someone else have the admin password.
4. Run any sort of a delete statement without BEGIN TRANSACTION... END TRANSACTION. You never know when you're going to screw up (or outright forget)
your Where clause.
5. Ignore it for even a minute!
6. Run scripts indiscriminately on the production server.
7. Configure your SQL server with only one drive letter.
8. Try unknown scripts on a production database.
9. Use a write-caching SCSI controller and shut down the server hard.
10. Install with the default configuration.
Your Favorite SQL Server Bloggers
1. Brent Ozar
2. Adam Machanic
3. Robert Pearl
4. Andy Warren
5. Pinal Dave
6. Grant Fritchey
7. Kalen Delaney
8. Steve Jones
9. Paul S. Randal
10. Kimberly L. Tripp