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May 3 2010

SQLCruise 2010 Personalized Training ON A BOAT!

    That’s right.  We’re on a boat and Autotune is forbidden.  So is Auto_Growth.  But SQLCruise?  What is SQLCruise?    Is it a SQL Saturday afterparty?  Is it a Tweet-up at sea?    Is it a new training event unlike anything else that you’ve ever heard of?  Kind of, sort of, and oh yes indeed!   SQL Saturday [...]

By sqlagentman • Professional Development, SQL Cruise, Syndicated • 3 • Tags: SQL Server, SQLCruise

Apr 30 2010

Top 13 SQL Server Mistakes and Missteps – #12 SELECT *

#12  SELECT * Plain and simple this is a lazy habit that causes performance problems and possible code fail over the application lifecycle.      That is all.     “Explain myself” you say?  Fine.     Imagine you’re given a grocery list by your Significant Other that states: “Go to the Sunny Mart and buy everything.  It’s exactly what we [...]

By sqlagentman • 13 Mistakes and Missteps, Best Practices, SQL N00B Crew, Syndicated • 1 • Tags: SQL, SQL N00B Crew, Top 13 Mistakes

Apr 26 2010

Top 13 SQL Server Mistakes and Missteps – #13 Being a Visible DBA

#13  Being A Visible DBA At The Wrong Time I’ve given presentations where I state that one of the qualities of being a good DBA is being a visible one.   The days of being a Database Administrator that sits in the smallest cubicle next to the noisy refrigerator and generally avoided by the rest of the [...]

By sqlagentman • 13 Mistakes and Missteps, Best Practices, SQL N00B Crew, Syndicated • 0 • Tags: SQL, SQL N00B Crew, Top 13 Mistakes

Apr 23 2010

Bad Decisions: Not Just For The Young Hollywood Elite

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 [...]

By sqlagentman • Best Practices, Fun Time, Rants, Syndicated • 4 • Tags: Best Practices, SA, SQL N00B Crew, SQL Server

Apr 17 2010

SQL Saturday 31 Chicago Follow Up

I find myself sitting in the back of Jeremiah Peschka’s (web|twitter) session on Internals of The SQL Query Optimizer looking back on two presentations I conducted earlier today.  Both ran long – 1 due to starting late, the other because it was just too damn big.  Overall things went well.  My shrinkingisbadandyoumustnotdoitorkittensaredevouredbyalligatorswhicharefedtobiggeralligatorswhicharethenrunoverbydrunkentruckers did not produce [...]

By sqlagentman • Dynamic Management Objects, Presentations, SQL N00B Crew, Syndicated • 2 • Tags: Presentations, SQL Saturday

Apr 16 2010

SQL Saturday #31 Chicago

As always seems to be the case I’m still changing up my newest presentation right up until the last minute.  Yes, tomorrow I’ll be delivering two presentations here in Elk Grove, IL – where apparently the 1970′s never came to an end according to the bar I’m sitting in now surrounded by Teamsters and locals [...]

By sqlagentman • Presentations, SQL N00B Crew, SQL Saturday, Syndicated • 0 • Tags: Presentations, SQL N00B Crew, SQL Saturday

Apr 12 2010

Survey Results for PASS Summit Content

I’m currently reviewing the compiled results for the recent PASS Summit Content survey that went out to all Professional Association for SQL Server members.  Thank you to all of you who took the time out of your brutally-busy schedule to assist the Programming Committee in guiding us to another successful summit in November 2010.  I [...]

By sqlagentman • PASS Summit, Syndicated • 0 • Tags: SQLPASS, Summit 2010

Apr 9 2010

In All Fairness…

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 [...]

By sqlagentman • Rants, SQL N00B Crew, Syndicated • 0 • Tags: SQL N00B Crew, Vendors

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