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Rants

May 7 2009

Good Third Party Vendors Are Like Drug Dealers (in a good way)

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 [...]

By Timothy • Rants, Red Gate, SQL, Syndicated • • Tags: Mexican Intellisense, Quest, Rants, Red Gate, SQL, SQL Sentry, Tech

Mar 6 2009

A Line in the Sand

What are your practices when it comes to dealing with commercially developed database performance issues in your environment?

By Timothy • Rants, SQL, Syndicated, Tech • • Tags: Best Practices, Rants, SQL, Syndicated

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