Here is the video from the SQL Inspire event last Fall in NYC. I hope you enjoy the talk, it took me a lifetime to create. You can read more about SQL Someday over at the Someday page. I plan on adding to that page over time.
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Review of DBA Survivor by Mike Fal
Saw this review today and wanted to share it with everyone here:
http://www.mikefal.net/2012/01/03/dba-survivor-learning-how-to-rock-out-with-databases/
I’m touched that Mike would take the time to write such a wonderful (and unsolicited) review of “that little book” I wrote almost two years ago now. I’d like for you to read his entire review, but I am going to share his last [...]
Do You Make These 5 Database Design Mistakes?
Look, everyone makes mistakes. It’s true. But not all of us have the chance to make mistakes that end up costing millions of dollars in hardware and production support costs.
Any one of the following five mistakes listed below will add additional costs to your company. It’s guaranteed. The costs could be hardware related (extra disk space, [...]
Meme Monday For January
OK, since today is technically a holiday for many, I had planned on holding this months meme Monday blog posts until tomorrow. But since tomorrow is named “Tuesday”, it didn’t make much sense. So, we will just wait until next Monday for people to publish their posts rather than having you rush to get it done [...]
SQL Blogger Rankings Updated
It was close, but I managed to get them updated before the end of the year. Congrats to Jamie Thomson (blog | @jamiet) and Chris Webb (blog | @Technitrain) who have been added to the reportserver group.
And thanks for everyone who follows these rankings. I will do my best to update them more frequently in 2012.
Happy New Year!
11 Things That Never Happened to Me in 2011
Here we are, at the end of 2011, and I suddenly realized I hadn’t done one of those obligatory “crap I did last year” posts like everyone else likes to do. So I decided to write about all the things that didn’t happen to me with the thought that in a year from now I [...]