In part one I discussed the four distinct development types that exist for everyone on the planet for any possible project related task. Knowledge of those four types can help you land your next job, providing you know about them before heading into the interview. Armed with such knowledge you can drill into the specific [...]
Microsoft Error Messages
This week I am looking for some examples of error messages that you have seen from Microsoft products. SQL error messages would be good, but I am not being picky. The idea is for me to see if I can perform different types of root cause analysis on the error messages so I will also [...]
Windows Hyper-V Book
A few weeks back I had the good fortune to attend a seminar at which John Kelbley was presenting. He happened to mention that he had recently finished a book on Hyper-V (OK, he mentioned it a dozen times), and I made a note to include it in my library.
I have been spending the past [...]
How To Get Hired
In the past few weeks I have seen a plethora of blog entries on interviewing, questions to ask a candidate, questions to ask the company, how to make yourself more desirable, etc. Essentially the SQL blogsphere is awash with professional development tips, and that includes some of my own entries. So, what would it hurt [...]
SQLstrology
So the other day I noticed that colorstrology is apparently a real thing and not something that I thought I was dreaming about after pulling an all night bender with ten pounds of double thick bacon. But what has yet to be written, until now that is, would be…wait for it…wait for it…
SQLstrology.
Yeah, that’s right, [...]
Updated Rankings
I have updated the rankings page, we had a few people move around since the last update. We also have two new faces to welcome into the tempdb, which is now full and will need to have someone dropped because my disk is not large enough. As always, refer to the FAQ page if you [...]