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 [...]
Nov 3 2010
It was back during the high heat of the Summer months that I parted ways with my former company, Spectrum Health, after a revokation of remote working priviledges after over a decade of working under that model. I’ve since moved on into a role that, while I expected to have some development DBA aspects really morphed [...]
Nov 2 2010
This is my first T-SQL Tuesday blog post. I keep meaning to participate, however my intentions are always superseded by work, family, travel, and so forth. This topic, however, hits very close to home for me and when I first saw word of it (about 15 minutes ago) I knew I had to fire my [...]
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 [...]
Sep 22 2010
I’ve received word that the labour of love (and almost Exhibit A in a divorce proceeding) is available for purchase at Amazon.com! If you’re even vaguely interested with increasing your proficiency with administrating and tuning your SQL Server instances then there is only one book I can recommend that has a photo I took on [...]
