Erin Cook

Erin Youtzy currently works as a DBA for the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. She maintains all MS SQL database servers and all databases associated (200+ databases, multiple platforms, multiple servers, including VM’s). Prior to that, Erin contracted as a DBA for Indian Health Services’ Web Team, where she specialized in migrating databases from one SQL platform to another, as well as migrating complex and sensitive data from one server to another. There she also worked heavily with SSRS reporting. Erin began her professional career as a DBA doing full-time database maintenance and upgrades to a local bank in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Before obtaining the title of DBA, Erin worked in records management, where she started querying the records’ databases and putting the results into reports for upper management. Erin is currently working on obtaining her MCITP in Database Administration. Feel free to connect with Erin on LinkedIn.

Articles: 2

Reporting Services Development

Add a Date Range Dataset in SSRS

A few years ago, I was working as a contractor for a Federal Government organization on the National Help Desk. It was my responsibility to build and maintain managerial statistical SQL Server Reporting Services reports. It would slow down my productivity

Erin Cook
December 16, 2014

System Databases

SQL Server Alert for Tempdb Growing Out of Control

The SQL Server tempdb database can sometimes grow out of control. In this tip we show how to create an alert and an automated email when this occurs.

Erin Cook
July 21, 2014