Revisiting Documenting Job Schedules with Google Calendar

About a year ago I wrote about my new method of documenting scheduled jobs with Google Calendar. Since that article I’ve been diligently updating my calendars as jobs have been added, deleted or changed.

Earlier today I was modifying the schedule of a job when I realized my idea had a fatal flaw. I noticed some

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Document Scheduled Jobs with Google Calendar

I’ve literally spent years trying to come up with a rational and simple way to document the scheduled jobs that I have running on multiple servers.

My jobs tend not to be anything fancy – in fact, Windows Task Scheduler and the scheduler in SQL Server tend to satisfy my requirements just fine. But lordy, I

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More Power

Last week, in “The Wonders of 7-zip” I discussed how enabling multi-thread support chopped my nightly backup zip times from 3 hours to just over 1 hours (actually 1.25 hours).

Today I ran the same process on a new server, which is sporting a single, but quad-core Xeon. It did the same job in 30

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The Wonders of 7-Zip

This past week, I've spent a lot of time going over our nightly job streams and the various relationships between jobs across our many servers. These jobs handle things like code promotion, database syncs (dev/qa/prod), backups, mirrors, disaster recovery, etc. etc. Things have changed a lot since I initially put a lot of

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Another Job Search Aggregator? PageBites.com

[co-workers have been giving me funny looks lately about these sorts of articles...]

First I looked at SimplyHired. That generated a comment suggesting I check out Indeed. That one generated an email from "Jenny" encouraging me to have a look at PageBites.com. Aren't I eager to please? Seriously though, I think this

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