Sep 7 2012
For some reason I awoke this morning with the thoughts of Dirty Reads Bulk Inserts Heavy Workloads Big Data on my mind. I’m starting to wonder if SQL is NSFW. Perhaps it’s just the pants-free telecommuting catching up with me or maybe it’s just simply because it’s Friday. In honor of that, and [...]
Dec 2 2011
We all deserve a break don’t we? That’s what I remember being told by Ronald McDonald back when I was growing up in the 1970′s. Who’s to say that we also can’t learn something new while stepping away from the data center craziness. A couple years ago I did a few rounds of (Not) Madlibs [...]
May 17 2010
Jan 9 2010
When Comedy Central first came on the air, a quirky British improv show called Whose Line Is It Anyway became a cult hit. I remember sitting around in some state of impairment with my friends laughing our asses off each episode. Even the American version from ABC had some high points a decade later. It [...]
Dec 4 2009
In this next installment of SQL LIBS I take you to earlier in my week when I received an email from a vendor, out of the blue, of course, who was apparently doing production-centric work without our knowledge on our web servers and associated SQL server that hosts their databases. So nice to get something [...]
Nov 19 2009
Why should Fridays be reserved for fun and office hi-jinx? I’ve been threatening to do this for quite some time, but starting today I will be converting a legitimate piece of email or vendor documentation I’ve encountered into a fill-in-the-blank-style-rhymes-with-ad-lib form (don’t sue me you-know-who-you-are) for you to use as a stress breaker with your co-workers [...]
