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 [...]
Jun 18 2010
Last week while I at TechEd I had a conversation with one of my Application Analysts back in the shop about a problem database from an ISV that we have been dealing with for over a month. A patch had been put in place and I was reviewing the results of some queries against the sys.dm_os_wait_stats [...]
Jun 17 2010
I recently did a fun little interview with Chris Shaw (web|twitter) that was posted yesterday at sqlPerspectives. It came as part of a Guest Blogger stint I volunteered for a while back. Each week Chris is having a guest blogger review a chapter from the MVP Deep Dives book that was published in 2009. I volunteered [...]
Jun 16 2010
I learned that I was able to teach Itzik Ben-Gan something about SQL Server and Oracle. I’m wearing adult diapers until the thrill wears off. This may be sometime around when I’ll need to start wearing adult diapers for other reasons. I learned I wanted one of these. Thanks Buck Woody (twitter|web)! I learned that [...]
Jun 15 2010
Someone lit the DBA Signal! If you’re reading this blog then you are well aware that last week was Tech-Ed 2010 in New Orleans. Typical of my history I start off with grand designs of blogging daily about the sessions and experiences I’ve had when travelling to events like Tech-Ed, PASS Summit, [...]
Jun 1 2010
By default, new databases are created with the following basic file settings: Data File: 2 MB 1 MB unrestricted growth Log File 1Mb 10% unrestricted growth Just exactly why is this bad? It will assuredly increase the frequency at which files will grow automatically… A transaction log file, if configured for autogrowth, will expand when it [...]
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 [...]
