I have no idea how this stuff keeps finding me, other than to think the Universe is really trying to tell me something. A while back I wrote about how I found out that the word ‘bing’ means ‘disease’ in Chinese. As with most of my cultural intake from China, I learned about this word [...]
Presenting at Columbus SQL Server Users Group
Actually, it is more like I am presenting for the C-Bus UG, since I will not physically be at the Kid’s Battle in C-Bus when the talk is given. And the idea that kid’s are going to be fighting during my talk seems distracting, not to mention it makes C-Bus seem a little violent. So, I [...]
Apple Tablet Price is Right
Apple is about to launch a new product today and I thought we could have some fun guessing the initial price. Winner gets a copy of my upcoming book, DBA Survivor. The rules are very simple:
use the #tabletpriceisrightgame hashtag on Twitter, or leave a comment to this blog post
select a specific price. not a range [...]
Find Database Sizes With Operations Manager
I was asked last week if knew a query that would return the size of the databases that have been discovered by Operations Manager. I went about digging through some old queries I put together and found the information that was requested.
Inside the OperationsManager database look for a view named MTV_Database. All discovered databases will [...]
Book Review: Outliers, the Story of Success
During the holidays my father-in-law was telling me about a book he had recently read. It was “Outliers: The Story of Success.” I was intrigued by my father-in-law recounting the stories about how all hockey players are born in January, towns in Pennsylvania that have no heart disease, and why Asians are so good a math. [...]
New Tip at MSSQLTips
Linked server configurations are often overlooked when it comes to environmental baselines. I don’t know of too many people who go out of their way to track such details. And I have often been surprised by vendor software packages that claim to track system changes but do not include linked server information.
One thing about linked [...]