Apr 12 2012
SQL Server 2012 Metro GUI Plug-In
I’m not sure what to make of the new SQL Server 2012 “Metro” GUI Plug-In for Microsoft SQL Server 2012. What do you think?
Fun Time
Dec 9 2011
Fun Friday Word Seek #1
This week’s Friday Fun here on thesqlagentman.com is a classic wordseek of SQL-centric words, terms, phrases, and keywords. Take a break when you have a moment and enjoy! Let’s meet back here next week to have a bit more fun. Y I G E N O D E E V B N I S H [...]
Dec 22 2010
On The 12 Days of SQL Christmas…
. 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 19 2010
A Holiday Wish
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 [...]
Oct 11 2010
Book Winner Announced
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
What are the odds? A New SQL Agent Man Contest!!!
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 6 2010
The Need For Good Data Is All Around Us
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 20 2010
What is a Transaction?
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 [...]
