YES WE CAN!

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 [...]

Trying to Put Ten Pounds of…

If you had ten gallons of water and a five gallon bucket, would you try to pour all ten gallons into that five gallon bucket? No? Why not? Probably because you can clearly see that the volume mismatch will cause a problem of sorts. Unless, of course, you really just want five gallons and you [...]

Health Service Flushing

If you are judging this post by the title, you are probably going to be surprised it is about Operations Manager 2007, and not about personal hygiene. But I came across something very useful in the OpsMgr GUI the other day and I thought I should share with those that may care.
Often times I find [...]

Web Persona and Your Career

In the past few months I have seen a handful of blog entries centered around what I call your ‘Web Persona’. Brent Ozar had one about being a Rock Star, and he also had a series of posts on how to set up a technical blog. The other day I read a blog post from [...]

America’s Most Exciting DBA

The other day I happened to see a commercial that described a local bank as “America’s Most Exciting Bank”. It took about ten seconds for this slogan to fully register inside my brain but when it did I found myself with lots and lots of questions. So many in fact that the next day I [...]

DBA Confidential

Last month I was in NYC for some meetings and happened to grab thirty minutes of time with my manager. We shared a walk to grab some breakfast, headed back to the office and just sat in a conference room for about thirty minutes and talked. Why would I bother to tell you this? Well, [...]

SQL Quiz Part 2

Well, he did it again, and I got tagged by Denny and Tim (who apparently does not read or subscribe to Denny’s blog). So I thought I should answer the bell and post a response, then tag someone else. The question at hand is: What are the largest challenges that you have faced in your [...]