May 3 2010
That’s right. We’re on a boat and Autotune is forbidden. So is Auto_Growth. But SQLCruise? What is SQLCruise? Is it a SQL Saturday afterparty? Is it a Tweet-up at sea? Is it a new training event unlike anything else that you’ve ever heard of? Kind of, sort of, and oh yes indeed! SQL Saturday [...]
Apr 27 2010
The MidnightDBA (web|twitter) version of phone sex involves dental floss. If you mention that you’ve never used Powershell Aaron Nelson (web|twitter) will offer to purchase, mix, and deliver to your door any and all Powershell Kool-Aid necessary to get you to drink. Allen White (web|twitter) is now on Twitter. (Also note this occurred just in time [...]
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 20 2010
Jason Strate (Web|Twitter) sings like the worst drunken office Santa ever William Shatner; dances like Seth Rogan after a debilitating and permanent head injury Dr. Stephen Hawking. Unfortunately Jes Borland (Web|Twitter) gets caught in the crossfire. Companies still continue to make money selling products developed on 32-bit Windows, running 32-bit SQL Server 2005. Some software [...]
Feb 14 2010
Brent Ozar may have stirred up a street fight between the SQL Server MVPs and Access MVPs heading into the annual Microsoft MVP Summit in Redmond next week. An opening salvo was a blog post on databasejournal.com called Top 10 Reasons Why Access Still Rocks for Developers. One or two points were well-made, but as a [...]
Dec 28 2009
The next round of SQL Saturdays is rapidly approaching: Tampa on 1/23/2010 followed by Boston and Richmond on 1/30/2010. I received notification that two of my sessions were accepted so now comes the time when I need to get back into the swing of all-things-SQL and switch out of Holiday Mode to get some things [...]
Oct 1 2009
I received notice in the wee hours of this morning that I’ve been awarded Microsoft MVP status. It means more to me than I expected; more to me than perfectly cooked MVP meat (bacon.)
Sep 11 2009
You would expect that a unique combination of database_id, object_id, index_id, and partition_number would be returned when calling sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats. Sometimes it does and sometimes it does not. SQL Server should not be a “sometimes” environment.
