Dec 23 2010
Over three years ago Tony Davis, Editor at Simple-Talk.com (Red Gate Software’s blog site) gave me my first break as an author. Tony was also the editor of the Performance Tuning with Dynamic Management Views book I recently completed with Louis Davidson. It was therefore a no-brainer when I was approached by Red Gate to be a [...]
Dec 22 2010
. On the first day of Christmas Twitter gave to me: A witty comment from @buckwoody On the second day of Christmas a purchase order gave to me: A Standard Edition two node cluster On the third day of Christmas Gottfried Leibniz gave to me: 11 cheers for binary On the fourth day of Christmas [...]
Dec 21 2010
In my preparations for all my presentations for 2011 regarding Dynamic Management Views and Functions as well as my consolidation efforts of instances at work, I found myself mulling over the easiest way to capture some of the metrics I would be using for determining current load on my SQL Server instances and capacity planning [...]
Dec 19 2010
As I was sitting around on this snowy Sunday working on presentations, articles, and even a bit of work-related issues I was watching The Santa Clause for the 95th time with my kids and it hit me that there is a goldmine sitting out there for Hollywood: live action re-makes of those classic Rankin and [...]
Dec 16 2010
… Joe Webb (blog|twitter) gave to us, some ideas to make us less impetuous. I went non-technical… My selection for the FreeCon 12 Days of SQL Series comes to us from one of those individuals I admire greatly. He’s not only a prime technical consultant and successful small business owner, but a quality blogger, friend, leader, [...]
Nov 19 2010
This post is going to be short and sweet (just like me) so that I can make the next showing of the latest Harry Potter movie with my kids (only because they want to go of course.) This post is part of the new initiative started by Jen McCown over at midnightdba.com entitled Un-SQL Friday. [...]
Nov 11 2010
It’s the final day of the Professional Association for SQL Server Summit 2010 in Seattle and after 4 days of Pre-Cons, sessions, networking, meetings, networking, and nights where your hours of sleep is almost equivalent to the ratio of DBAs::databases in your environment your ability to learn new things has just about hit its limit. [...]
Nov 6 2010
I’m typically not used to cutting it close, but yesterday’s travel experience was just that. From missing the cutoff for checking bags out of Kalamazoo International Airport (they must consider Minnesota as another country or that title’s been grandfathered in) to running from gate C890,000.0001 in Toledo to gate A98105 in Detroit at DTW in [...]
