Dec 6 2011
It certainly doesn’t take a rocket scientist to go to space… John Candy spent dog years in space in Spaceballs… Abbot and Costello went to Mars… Eddie Murphy hammed his way through Pluto Nash… (though even HE won’t admit that) Ben Affleck escaped gravity (and J-Lo) in Armageddon… Jane Fonda found Duran(d) Duran(d) in Barbarella… [...]
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 [...]
Jul 12 2010
It’s no secret that Louis Davidson and I are working on a book for Red Gate on Dynamic Management Views. Good news is that we’re close… oh so close. In the meantime Red Gate has published a DMV Starter Pack that includes exerpts from our book along with content from our Technical Editor: fellow SQL [...]
May 7 2009
Yesterday I was in full crisis mode dealing with a production server that was not showing love to the users; I call that Wednesday. Phone rings; number I’m not familiar with, and harmless according to the caller id. I answer it and get a full press sales pitch from <REDACTED> barely after I can get [...]
