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Mama Said: Lay You Off

Feb 28 2013

Mama Said: Lay You Off

“Call it a Layoff… They Been Here for Years” My apologies to Ladies Love Cool J (aka LL Cool J) but I couldn’t resist the urge… Last week Marissa Mayer, President and CEO of Yahoo laid out a directive that within a few months all remote workers would either need to start working in the [...]

By Tim Ford • Rants, Tech • 16 • Tags: #remote, #shanselman, #telecommuting, #yahoo

The Natural Side of Micro-Management

Sep 4 2012

The Natural Side of Micro-Management

Welcome to Hell. It’s Beautiful and the Coffee is Terrible. Last month I enured the most grueling (physically and mentally) experience of my life to date with the possible exception of the experience of watching my youngest son languish in a hospital bed for almost six weeks back in 2011. I spent fourteen days with [...]

By Tim Ford • Professional Development, Rants, Syndicated • 1 • Tags: #sqltrevor, Buck Woody, micro-management, micromanagement, Professional Development, SQL, SQL Server

Explanation of the Typical Phishing Scam

Jul 16 2012

Explanation of the Typical Phishing Scam

The Delivery Mechanism I just received an email this morning, purportedly from Apple that alerted me to changes in my Apple ID.  The subject line was a generic Account Info Change warning and the email subject was heavily-laden with links to various phoney apple.com sites.  Please keep in mind that you can have a link [...]

By Tim Ford • Security • 1 • Tags: apple, phish, phishing, warning

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas…2011

Dec 26 2011

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas…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 [...]

By Tim Ford • 12 Days of Christmas 2011, Rants, Syndicated • 0 • Tags: #12DaysofSQLChristmas

Nov 11 2010

Dr. David DeWitt Should Do Every Keynote. Ever.

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. [...]

By Tim • PASS Summit, Rants, SQLServerPedia • 2 • Tags: David DeWitt

Aug 2 2010

SQL Cruise Has Begun.

By Timothy • Syndicated, Tech • 0 • Tags: SQL Cruise

Jul 12 2010

Top 13 SQL Server Mistakes and Missteps – #9 Service Accounts

The service accounts for SQL Server have undergone expansion in the past few releases of Microsoft SQL Server. Back in the days of SQL Server 2000 and earlier you only had to deal with configuring a service account for the SQL and the SQL Agent services. Now you have to contend with those in addition [...]

By Tim • 13 Mistakes and Missteps, Best Practices, SQL N00B Crew, Syndicated • 8 • Tags: Service Accounts, SQL N00B Crew, SQL Server, Top 13 Mistakes

Jul 6 2010

The Need For Good Data Is All Around Us

 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 [...]

By sqlagentman • Fun Time, Rants, Syndicated, Travel • 3 • Tags: Data, Fun Time, Independence Day

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