The Holy Scrolling NO WAY Gold Nugget (Script Data) SSMS 2008
Tonight, I set about blogging about something I thought was interesting, funny and marginally useful (IFmU)…or wait…funny, useful and marginally interesting (FUmI). Part of the blog post I had...
View ArticleCompetitive Communities: Ring Generalship and SQL
I was invited to a press conference a few days ago where Roy Jones Jr., Pensacola, Florida native and at one time considered to be the pound for pound best boxer on the planet, talked about his...
View ArticleNew SQL Code Deployment Book and Damn I Need to Blog More
Select datediff(d,’02/19/2009′,getdate()) This value returned from the above SELECT statement is 398 and that is the number of days since my last blog post. As I was formulating my apology for this...
View ArticleSQL Alphabet and Friday Nights
So, it is Friday night in Lake Mary, Florida, our new home. I get off work at 3:30 on Friday and after a soothing cold Hazed and Confused IPA from our new favorite watering hole, it is time to play...
View ArticlePower of 2 – Installing SQL Server 2005 on an odd number of processors.
Today I received an email from a buddy of mine who happens to be a MVP for System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). I had asked him for some info a few weeks back about SCCM and he responded with...
View ArticleMVP Trading Cards and War Games
I had planned to blog tonight about the MVP Summit and all of the great new friends I met, mostly XNA and Direct X MVPs for some reason, but I could not wrap my brain around how I would deliver the...
View ArticleGoing to the Score Cards – Exceptional DBA Awards 2011
This year marks my 4th year as a judge for the Exceptional DBA Awards, founded by Red Gate in 2008 to “recognize the essential but often overlooked contributions of DBAs, the unsung heroes of the IT...
View ArticleDenali-runner: Do DBAs dream of readable replicas?
Several years ago, I sat attentively in my new boss’ office, as he described a constant and painful thorn in the side of our company. The problem was with one particular highly visible and critical...
View ArticleHigh Jinks, Hi Jacks, Exceptional DBA Awards and PASS
The countdown to PASS has counted down. The day after tomorrow I will board a plane, like many others, on my way for the 4th year in a row to SQL PASS Summit. The anticipation has been excruciating...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery Discovery
Last weekend I joined several of my IT staff on a mission to perform a DR test in our remote CoLo center in a large South East city of the US. Can I be more obtuse? The goal was simple for me as the...
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