I got the call from Wayne Snyder late this afternoon. Well, it was an email at first, asking me to call him. So I did. He wasn’t there. So I left a message. And I emailed him back, saying I had left a message, and then he called me back. Exciting stuff, right?
Wayne wanted to [...]
Professional New Year's Resolutions
Well, I have been tagged again, this time by Brent Ozar on the subject regarding professional resolutions for the upcoming year. There does not seem to be any minimum amount of resolutions to make, so here are the ones that came to my mind immediately.
Get elected to the PASS board of directors. I have come [...]
Career Change
As we close out 2008 and look ahead to 2009 my thoughts are slowly turning around what my life would have been like had I followed my dream back while I was a freshman in college. Back then my roommate suggested that we drop out of school, take steroids, work out for eight hours a day, [...]
Uptime? You betcha.
Just thought I would share some info from Operations Manager that shows the amount of uptime on our servers here since 1/1/2008. Why? Well, since I am the official DBA of Uptime, a distinction that many have questioned, it felt right to provide some numbers.
I am sure many others will be able to provide better [...]