Dec 13 2011
On the first day of Christmas my SAN Admin gave to me striped disks with parity… Yes, this is known as RAID 5 and is ideal and preferred for user database data files in Microsoft SQL Server. Why? Satisfactory performance – disks are striped Good redundancy – parity is distributed Lowest-cost RAID option for performance [...]
Dec 2 2011
We all deserve a break don’t we? That’s what I remember being told by Ronald McDonald back when I was growing up in the 1970′s. Who’s to say that we also can’t learn something new while stepping away from the data center craziness. A couple years ago I did a few rounds of (Not) Madlibs [...]
Nov 19 2010
This post is going to be short and sweet (just like me) so that I can make the next showing of the latest Harry Potter movie with my kids (only because they want to go of course.) This post is part of the new initiative started by Jen McCown over at midnightdba.com entitled Un-SQL Friday. [...]
Oct 11 2010
I’d like to congratulate Michael Codanti for his winning comment, selected from all right answers, to the questions posed on my DMV Book Contest post from last week. Plans went awry when I forgot that all previously approved commentors’ comments are posted to the blog without need for my moderation, but in the end my [...]
Oct 6 2010
Interesting situations arise out of mistakes everyday… Alexander Graham Bell spilled stuff on his lap and called for Watson to come help him – achieving the first successful test of the telephone (or was it the first attempt at serving pr0n over a telecommunications signal?) The doughnut was invented by a baker (and off-duty police [...]
Sep 22 2010
I’ll be speaking at this month’s PASS DBA Virtual Chapter meeting today at 2pm Eastern on the subject of my Top 10 List of SQL Server Mistakes and Missteps. This presentation takes on a whole new meaning for me as I embark on a new job and get to see how other environments that I [...]
Nov 19 2009
Why should Fridays be reserved for fun and office hi-jinx? I’ve been threatening to do this for quite some time, but starting today I will be converting a legitimate piece of email or vendor documentation I’ve encountered into a fill-in-the-blank-style-rhymes-with-ad-lib form (don’t sue me you-know-who-you-are) for you to use as a stress breaker with your co-workers [...]
