Review 2009 Goals

As we close out 2009 I wanted to check back on the goals I had set last year. To recap, I wanted to do the following:

Get elected to the PASS Board
Use my Six Sigma training
Learn more about virtualization
Spend more time with my children

Well, I got elected (and a big ‘thank-you’ to all of my supporters), [...]

Find Out What Your Log Is Waiting For

Another tidbit from the PASS Summit that I am only now getting around to blogging about…
Did you know that your transaction log file is circular in nature? That is, when your log has reached the end of the physical file it will go back to the very beginning and overwrite any virtual log file (VLF) segments [...]

SQL Brain Picking

A few weekends ago I was fortunate enough to spend time with some old friends Chris and Sally. We had dinner together and got caught up on all sorts of events over the past oh-so-many years. There was a time when we saw each other quite frequently, as Chris and I used to coach basketball [...]