Feb 28 2013
“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 [...]
Sep 4 2012
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 [...]
Dec 26 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 [...]
Nov 11 2010
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. [...]
Jul 6 2010
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 [...]
May 14 2010
Paul Randal recently streaked through the the family picnic and tossed-down a hornet’s nest on the dessert table by starting a meme on which five things Microsoft should drop from their SQL Server product. I came to this party late – and uninvited – but I’m going to go ahead and drop my junk in [...]
Apr 23 2010
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 [...]
Apr 9 2010
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 [...]
