Dec 12 2011
The Apology Before I continue I owe everyone an apology. I’m sure I’ve been absolutely, positively annoying in my near-constant soliciting for votes for #DBAInSpace. I now am quite assured that I’ll never go into politics because I find it quite difficult to walk the fine line between distributing my message and micromanaging the voting [...]
Dec 6 2011
It certainly doesn’t take a rocket scientist to go to space… John Candy spent dog years in space in Spaceballs… Abbot and Costello went to Mars… Eddie Murphy hammed his way through Pluto Nash… (though even HE won’t admit that) Ben Affleck escaped gravity (and J-Lo) in Armageddon… Jane Fonda found Duran(d) Duran(d) in Barbarella… [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Feb 12 2010
Brent Ozar (Quest Software) (web|twitter) will be our guest on February 24, 2010 at New Horizons Computer Training Center in Grand Rapids Michigan. Join us as Brent speaks on the topic of Virtualization. If you’re able to attend and have not RSVP’d already, please do so by sending an email to wmssug@sqlpass.org with the subject line [...]
Nov 12 2009
(…put down Cleveland) I’d like to thank Jeremiah Peschka (twitter | web) for inviting me to speak at the Columbus SQL Server Users Group November meeting tonight. Through technical difficulties with Live Meeting (their end) and the oncoming symptoms of the flu (my end) I think it went off pretty well. The slide deck and queries [...]
Sep 19 2009
Quest Connect 2009 is rapidly approaching. I’ll be presenting along with Brent Ozar and Tom LaRock on the subject of SQL Administration for the System Engineer.
