Oct 11 2010
I’d like to congratulate Michael Codanti for his winning comment, selected from all right answers, to the questions posed on my DMV Book Contest post from last week. Plans went awry when I forgot that all previously approved commentors’ comments are posted to the blog without need for my moderation, but in the end my [...]
Oct 6 2010
Interesting situations arise out of mistakes everyday… Alexander Graham Bell spilled stuff on his lap and called for Watson to come help him – achieving the first successful test of the telephone (or was it the first attempt at serving pr0n over a telecommunications signal?) The doughnut was invented by a baker (and off-duty police [...]
Jun 20 2010
OK, Hive Mind I have an assignment for you. As I plod through the edit phase of my Performance Tuning with SQL Server DMVs book I’ve been asked by my Overlord PITA Task Master Editor to explain what I mean by Transaction when used in discussing the sys.dm_tran_ … Dynamic Management Objects. Of course we’ve [...]
Jun 8 2010
My Magic On Whiteboard Greetings from New Orleans: where the air is thick with edumacation inside the convention center and just plain thick outside. I’ll confirm for you that this is the perfect place to hold a technical conference. No one wishes to go outside in this weather. As is usually the case [...]
Jan 17 2010
In a recent post I laid out a challenge to all bloggers to use five phrases and craft a blog post of their choosing as a study in stengthening their writing skills while having a little fun in the process. This is my response to the challenge. Phrases in boldface are those that had to [...]
Jan 9 2010
When Comedy Central first came on the air, a quirky British improv show called Whose Line Is It Anyway became a cult hit. I remember sitting around in some state of impairment with my friends laughing our asses off each episode. Even the American version from ABC had some high points a decade later. It [...]
Jul 15 2009
The results are in and we have a winner in the first SQLAgentMan contest.
Jul 7 2009
I originally planned this post to just vent about a vendor doing something evil to their own database hosted on a shared instance of SQL Server I administer. Then I thought that I may be able to make a contest out of this… So, what caused me to come up with this lame stunt to drive traffic to my blog? Well… you tell me!
