While watching a movie tonight, the Amazon Prime video system had an outage, no Amazon videos would play on my Amazon Fire TV Device. Netflix and Hulu worked fine, other internet traffic worked fine, just no Amazon Prime videos. After going to Twitter, I did some looking around and could find not status update on the outage on the official …
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Being the middle of the summer in the northern hemisphere, and with the Database Corruption Challenge over, I thought I would cover something a bit lighter, and not as hard core as database corruption. Share Your DBA on Vacation Stories If you have been a DBA for more than a year or two you probably have some story about going …
If you are looking for more info on the corrupt database with Week 10 of the Database Corruption Challenge, you can take a look at the week 10 Challenge Details. With this being the final competition of the Database Corruption Challenge, I had to make it more difficult than the others, so I added 3 different types of corruption. This challenge was …
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After 10 weeks (or almost weekly) of corrupt databases, missing data and a challenging competition the Database Corruption Challenge finally comes to an end. As part of the last week of the challenge I created a short blog interview for the participants. This interview is Patrick Flynn. Patrick placed in third with a 3 way tie for third overall in the the Database Corruption Challenge scoring 21 …
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After 10 weeks (or almost weekly) of corrupt databases, missing data and a challenging competition the Database Corruption Challenge finally comes to an end. As part of the last week of the challenge I created a short blog interview for the participants. This interview is Neil Abrahams. Neil placed in third place with a 3 way tie for third overall in the the Database Corruption Challenge scoring 21 …
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After 10 weeks (or almost weekly) of corrupt databases, missing data and a challenging competition the Database Corruption Challenge, finally comes to an end. As part of the last week of the challenge I created a short blog interview for the participants. This interview is André Kamman. André placed second overall in the the Database Corruption Challenge scoring 22 points which pushed him above a 3 …
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After 10 weeks (or almost weekly) of corrupt databases, missing data and a challenging competition the Database Corruption Challenge, finally comes to an end. As part of the last week of the challenge I created a short blog interview for the participants. This interview is with Raul Gonzalez. Raul placed third (in a tie) overall in the Database Corruption Challenge behind Rob Farley, and …
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After 10 weeks (or almost weekly) of corrupt databases, missing data and a challenging competition the Database Corruption Challenge, finally comes to an end. As part of the last week of the challenge I created a short blog interview for the participants. Rob Farley is the overall winner, the champion of the Database Corruption Challenge scoring more points than anyone else. Congratulations …
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Now that the Database Corruption Challenge has come to an end, I am looking for some feedback from the participants to see what we can do next (if anything) and to learn from the experience. I have created a survey, it is not too long, so please take a minute or two to provide some feedback. I would really appreciate …
Today I am proud to announce that the Database Corruption Challenge has come to an end. I would like to say that I have met some really great people during this contest and I look forward to seeing you at PASS Summit in October, or other conference someday. The Corruption Challenge Winners After 10 competitions Rob Farley is the overall Champion …
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