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 [...]
SQL 2008 SSMS
That little green arrow for the debugger is not a welcome addition. Really. Not my favorite thing, especially since you have to be a sysadmin to debug. Seems odd that you tell developers to develop code with the least amount of privileges necessary, and then force them to be a sysadmin to debug.
Stop laughing. It’s [...]
Dear Vendor
Hi there. How are you doing? I hope things are going well for you. Thanks for the pizza the other day, along with the t-shirts and free pens. I know we are going through a rough patch, and you are making an effort by giving us things and buying some food in an effort to [...]