Faryl O'Neil

Overnight Mid-Level DBA

Faryl has 7+ years of SQL Server experience and has worked briefly with Oracle once upon a dream. He has a passion for putting words to paper and explaining complicated concepts in simple terms.

Explaining Database Normalization Like You’re Five

Normalization is not that complicated. In fact, the beauty of these rules is that you may not know you’re already applying them in your database design. To demonstrate, over the course of this multi-part series, we’ll be covering the three generally... read more

Scripting Basic Backups using SQL Server Agent

The most satisfying meal is the one you make yourself, and database backup jobs are no different. Many DBAs use maintenance plans as a “one-stop-shop” for maintaining their SQL Server databases. After all, they do backups, integrity checks, index... read more