May 28 2010
Some developers have decent artistic skills, particularly when drawing plums with crayons. Even when those plums look like apples. I saw a Hipster get hit by a car while jaywalking. Well, actually he/she walked into the side of the moving car and bounced off of it. Surprisingly more force is required to knock someone out [...]
May 25 2010
Thank you Portland, Oregon and all those associated with puting together and participating in SQL Saturday #27 on 5/22/2010. I would personally like to thank the anonymous, but freakishly tall gentleman who attended my last session of the day and was somehow able to reach the projector on the ceiling in order to restart it after [...]
May 20 2010
I will be presenting on two topics at SQL Saturday #27 in Portland, OR this weekend: Backup and Disaster Recovery for N00Bs and Indexing Dynamic Management Views. It’s going to be exhausting, but fun: out of Detroit at 8pm EDT – Into Portland around 11pm PDT (that’s 2 AM “real” time folks if you don’t [...]
May 17 2010
I alluded to taking the time to chart out a recent conversation that took place between myself and Jeremiah Peschka (blog|twitter). Before you proceed I want to stress that we were both sober. It highlights though just how prone people in our profession are towards the shiny side of life. The distractions abound for those [...]
May 17 2010
SQL Sentry is sponsoring the first SQLCruise, a 4-day training event aboard the Carnival Imagination for the amazing low price of $295.00 + cost of the cruise. Official contest details and rules are available here. Details about SQLCruise, the itinerary, class schedule, trainers, and events are available at SQLCruise.com. You can also follow SQLCruise on [...]
May 14 2010
Paul Randal recently streaked through the the family picnic and tossed-down a hornet’s nest on the dessert table by starting a meme on which five things Microsoft should drop from their SQL Server product. I came to this party late – and uninvited – but I’m going to go ahead and drop my junk in [...]
May 11 2010
I love seeing good documentation in code. I really love seeing honest documentation in code. Seeing comments that basically show the developer has given up, hacked together a poor workaround to get a tasked accomplished at the cost of performance for every customer… full of Awesome. This is slightly redacted code from a stored procedure [...]
May 10 2010
#11 – Memory Settings Unless you have been working with SQL Server for a while, you may not go into the Server Properties or Facets and tweak much of anything after a successfull install. After all, there are a great deal of things out there and it can be really confusing. Let’s keep it really [...]
