Apr 25 2011
Change [cheynj] verb, to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one’s name; to change one’s opinion; to change the course of history.[+] Work [wurk] noun, exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.[++] [...]
Apr 21 2011
I recently ran across a quote from William Blake that fits perfectly for how I attempt to live my life (note: *attempt*.) Think in the morning Act in the noon Eat in the evening Sleep in the night Join me for a four-part professional development series here next week as I expound on each [...]
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 [...]
