The next meme Monday is upon us! Next week (on Monday, of course) will be your next writing exercise. The theme this time around will be “dumb SQL questions”. These can be questions you have been asked, or questions you want to ask. It really doesn’t matter as long as you can write a post [...]
Bad T-SQL Song Lyrics or How My Music Playlists Torment Me By Reminding Me of So Many T-SQL Code Sins
The other day I was sitting in my home office, contemplating what it would be like if I had a zebra and enjoying some music while consuming my lunch. I was also reviewing some T-SQL for a client and was going down a mental checklist of the bad T-SQL habits I was seeing. And that’s [...]
It's Not Your Fault
A while back I started thinking about how a lot of people have no idea of the true value of having a good DBA. This made me also think that it is likely the reason why some people treat DBAs so poorly. And then for whatever reason I started thinking about Denny Cherry (blog | [...]
Sweet Charlotte!
PASS recently announced that the annual PASS Summit would be held in Charlotte, NC in the year 2013. The event will be the first Summit held outside of Seattle after a five year run there. I wanted to put together a quick blog post to help people understand a bit more about the event, the location, [...]