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 [...]