Apr 13 2011
Michael Eaton contacted me last week and asked if I would be interested in speaking at the 3rd incarnation of the KalamazooX Conference scheduled for April 30, 2011. Because I believe in the root goal for the event - improvement of the soft skills that separate us from the emotionless robots and pooh-flinging monkeys pounding away at random keyboards make us [...]
Apr 11 2011
To work with me that is. Spectrum Health is hiring a full time Oracle and SQL Server DBA (2 Disciplines – 1 FTE) and I’m tossing this request out to you here. The formal job posting can be found on the Spectrum Health website, but keep in mind the posting was written by a series [...]
Jan 11 2011
Why waste the bits on anything that could only pale in comparison to Rob Farley’s submission for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday? Therefore I submit to you the shortest blog post in T-SQL Tuesday history… What HE Said.
Jan 11 2011
While examining things you can do with the sys.dm_os_info Dynamic Management View I ran across an interesting outcome concerning SQL Server start time. Theorhetically, you can determine the last start time for your SQL Server services via any of the three methods: Create Date of tempdb (because tempdb is recreated each time the SQL services [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
