Dec 26 2011
On the Twelfth day of Christmas I Give a Wish to You…Peace 11 SQL Never Not Dos! Ten Quick Hit Thumbscripts A Nine Hour Work Day I FORGOT WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR… Seven Reports to Start My Day Six Gb of RAM Five Volumes Minimum… Four Words to Live By… Three Training Events… Two Twitter [...]
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. [...]
Jul 6 2010
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 [...]
May 14 2010
Paul Randal recently streaked through the the family picnic and tossed-down a hornet’s nest on the dessert table by starting a meme on which five things Microsoft should drop from their SQL Server product. I came to this party late – and uninvited – but I’m going to go ahead and drop my junk in [...]
Apr 23 2010
I give you exhibit A: The Last Straw: Yes, Third Party Software vendors out there are still trying to ruffie our SQL Servers. I encountered these instructions yesterday when reviewing a pending installation process. What you don’t see here though are items 1-11 in their instructions (one being a requirement for [...]
Apr 9 2010
I often rail against Third Party Vendors in my posts here and also on Twitter and on any other virtual stump I can climb onto. It is refreshing when I have conversations like I just had with a technical representative from a software developer whose product we have purchased and used for a number of [...]
Mar 15 2010
I recently received an email from a reader asking about free training for SQL Server. Without giving it a second thought I recommended SQL Saturday. These events, now going on two years strong, are single-day training sessions on all things SQL Server as well professional development sessions geared towards the database professional. The high-level of [...]
Feb 5 2010
Paul Randal (web|twitter) created another one of these chain blog memes recently when posting about the three things/events that brought him to his current circumstances on this little blue-green planet. The meme eventually made its way to Jack Corbett (web|twitter) and then onto me. As per normal processes when asked to make a list of [...]
