I hear it all the time. It’s a familiar refrain. Most of the time it is innocent enough, and understandable. But there are times when hearing those words are like hearing the screech of fingernails on a chalkboard: “We can’t change the code.” There you are, listening to someone complain to you about the database … Read more
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.
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Today is the first Monday of the month, which means it is Meme Monday! The meme for this month was the following: What gift do you want Microsoft to leave for you under the tree this year? I thought about weaving together some movie quotes using A Christmas Story, but then I remembered that I had … Read more
