Jul 31 2010
Though my official last day at work is August 9th (exit interview, et. al.) My last day doing production work was yesterday. I am tethered to the on-call rotation until noon while my replacement returns from a trip to Italy. What the hell, I’ve never been to Italy! I’ve thought long and hard about how [...]
Jul 27 2010
Tonight is the July meeting for the West Michigan SQL Server Users Group (WMSSUG). Details are below, including information on our speaker this month, none other than Robert B. Davis aka @SQLSoldier! The meeting is being presented virtually so feel free to attend even if you aren’t a member. Robert is a Sr. Production DBA [...]
Jul 21 2010
Yesterday, Brent Ozar announced in a post on SQLCruise.com that we, along with our sponsors: SQLSentry, Quest Software, MSSQLTips.com, and Red Gate Software, are giving away a netbook each day of the cruise that sets sail on 8/2/2010. Each Cruiser, as we’ve come to affectionately call them has a 1/15 chance of winning one. We are developing very [...]
Jul 15 2010
<Cliché> Life works in mysterious ways </Cliché> <Cliché> All things happen for a reason </Cliché> However you slice it the last week has been quite a wild one for me and my family. It all came to be in the series of two emails received less than four hours apart from one another. The first was an email [...]
Jul 12 2010
The service accounts for SQL Server have undergone expansion in the past few releases of Microsoft SQL Server. Back in the days of SQL Server 2000 and earlier you only had to deal with configuring a service account for the SQL and the SQL Agent services. Now you have to contend with those in addition [...]
Jul 12 2010
It’s no secret that Louis Davidson and I are working on a book for Red Gate on Dynamic Management Views. Good news is that we’re close… oh so close. In the meantime Red Gate has published a DMV Starter Pack that includes exerpts from our book along with content from our Technical Editor: fellow SQL [...]
Jul 6 2010
Hi. I’m Tim. We may have met here before but it’s been a while. Sorry about that. I needed a life. For a day. You see, I’m finally in the last stages of writing my first and only book. I toss in my sleep with Dynamic Management View-based queries in my head. I hear the [...]
