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Challenges

Taking Shortcuts

Feb 15 2012

Taking Shortcuts

Traffic Circles, Honey Badgers, and Handicapped Banthas This morning while dropping my son off at school as I do every day before heading back home to the office I encountered not one, or two, but four different parents who bypassed the traffic circle dedicated to dropping off students and instead utilized handicapped parking spots in [...]

By Tim Ford • Best Practices, Challenges • • Tags: SQL

Feb 5 2010

Thing 1 Thing 2 and Thing 3. (or No Farm Animals Were Injured In The Making of This Post.)

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 [...]

By sqlagentman • Challenges, Family and Friends, Professional Development, Rants, Syndicated •

Dec 10 2009

Impetuousness Is My Shiny

I was just tagged by Brent Ozar with this latest blog tag session that harkens to an enclave, a phone, and the worst interview for a volunteer position I’ve ever been a part of (let alone the candidate for).   The question posed:  “What is Your Greatest Weakness?”   The originator of this purging of personal demons in [...]

By sqlagentman • Challenges, Professional Development, Rants, Syndicated, Tech •

Dec 1 2009

Good Data Saves Lives

  I was posed with the question of how we use SQL Server in our workplace by that irrepressible scamp Grant Fritchey, who was previously tapped gently on the noggin by David Taylor; the instigator in this latest SQL-centric meme.  It seem appropriate for me to first tell you a bit about the environment I [...]

By Timothy • Challenges, SQL, Syndicated •

Nov 16 2009

PASS Summit Homework Challenge

It’s been a week now since the 2009 PASS Community Summit ended.  The last of us filed out of Seattle on Monday and here it is, Monday all over again.  So did you implement anything you learned at the Summit yet?  All those fresh ideas in your head are starting to get swept out by those [...]

By Timothy • Challenges, Dynamic Management Objects, PASS Summit, Syndicated • • Tags: Challenge, PASS, Summit 2009

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