Feb 24 2011
I couldn’t come up with a cinematic or musically-themed title for a post that covers what has gone on since I last updated everyone on Trevor. I don’t think that Hollywood could come up with a plot to match what’s gone on. Particularly since they’re too busy out there trying to come up with a reboot [...]
Feb 17 2011
Wednesday, February 16th? In the continuing saga of my son Trevor, today was a frustrating day of watching the clock. For the last 36 hours the routine has been the same: he eats, he hurts, he hits the Junior DBA’s room, he cries, he rests, we walk the halls of the childrens ward. Repeat. It’s [...]
Feb 15 2011
We’ve had a few more days of lows and much better highs the past few days since I first laid bare my son, Trevor’s, medical issues on this blog. Saturday February 12 found us in a sit-wait-stay-good dog position. Baby steps continued, but were always aided by scheduled Morphine and hindered by boredom and short [...]
Feb 12 2011
Many of you by now have seen the tweets or Facebook posts about issues surrounding my ten-year-old son, Trevor. For those who have publicly, privately, or unbenknownst to me expressed their support (for the most part) to a kid they’ve never met before, I appreciate it and then close this run-on-sentence. Up until 8 months ago Trev was a [...]
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 23 2010
Over three years ago Tony Davis, Editor at Simple-Talk.com (Red Gate Software’s blog site) gave me my first break as an author. Tony was also the editor of the Performance Tuning with Dynamic Management Views book I recently completed with Louis Davidson. It was therefore a no-brainer when I was approached by Red Gate to be a [...]
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 [...]
