Dec 4 2009
In this next installment of SQL LIBS I take you to earlier in my week when I received an email from a vendor, out of the blue, of course, who was apparently doing production-centric work without our knowledge on our web servers and associated SQL server that hosts their databases. So nice to get something [...]
Nov 23 2009
I really don’t know why it took me so long to embrace the use of templates in SQL Server Management Studio. Really, they’re right there in plain sight. They even have their own Explorer for cryin’ out loud! Even the DMVs don’t have that and look how much press they get! Unless one of the templates [...]
Nov 20 2009
You would think I would have this down by now… I’m in the process of puting up our second SQL Server 2008 cluster (on Windows Server 2008 of course) and once again issues are encountered. As assuredly as the constancy of the superiority of bacon as the perfect protein on this blue-green planet for non-vegans so [...]
Nov 19 2009
Why should Fridays be reserved for fun and office hi-jinx? I’ve been threatening to do this for quite some time, but starting today I will be converting a legitimate piece of email or vendor documentation I’ve encountered into a fill-in-the-blank-style-rhymes-with-ad-lib form (don’t sue me you-know-who-you-are) for you to use as a stress breaker with your co-workers [...]
Nov 5 2009
I’ve been orbiting in and around Buck Woody’s (web / twitter) circle of sweetness since we co-presented on SQL Server DMVs yesterday for Quest Software’s Breakfast with the Experts panel. Without getting into what I’ve learned from him on a technical level (much) I did learn that he is an equal-opportunity offender. Here is just the [...]
Nov 3 2009
I’m sitting here at the Blogger’s table between @mrdenny (Denny Cherry) and @BrentO (Brent Ozar) heckling PASS President Wayne Snyder listening to the PASS Opening Keynote. Wayne Snyder is up first. Followed by Bob Muglia (President, Server and Tools Business (STB), Microsoft Corporation) and then Ted Kummert (Senior VP Business Platform Division, Microsoft Corporation). It’s too hard to [...]
Oct 30 2009
No, not hook-up, meet-up… I am organizing an informal meetup for those of you that want to keep up with the fitness routine while at the PASS Summit 2009 next week. The Sheraton, where the majority of us are staying, has a great fitness center (excellent by many hotel standards.) We’ll be meeting at the [...]
Oct 22 2009
For a while now I promised a post about a night from the 2007 PASS Community Summit in Seattle where a certain SQL Professional found himself wandering the streets homeless. This is that story…
