Thomas LaRockBy now I am certain most everyone has heard about this crazy lady who dialed 9-1-1 because a local McDonalds had run out of Chicken McNuggets and would not refund her money. While having dinner tonight I had this exchange with my six year old daughter: Me: “What do you do if there is an … Read more
Aaron Alton posted a response to my recent blog about a hatred for NULLs so I wanted to drop a quick aside and make sure I pointed out how well he managed to tell me I am an idiot without actually coming right out and saying so. Sure, NULLs have a purpose, fine, but so does Paris … Read more
Last week I attended another Hands-On-Lab at the MTC center in Waltham, MA. One of the new SQL 2008 features I was able to kick around was SQL 2008 SQL Server Audit. Truthfully, I did not even know about this feature until I was handed the lab sheet. Fortunately I was already planning on spending the day … Read more
So yesterday we were researching some deadlocks and decided to produce a deadlock graph in order to have a visual understanding of the situation because pictures are always easier to work with, just ask Einstein. Anyway, we were not able to produce the graph from Profiler because we were doing something crazy, which was filtering … Read more
So here I am, sitting at home with Congress, who is telling me that she wants to see the finale for the Bachelor because the guy chose one woman, has we-are-getting-married sex with her for six weeks, then dumps her on national television and asks miss I-wasn’t-good-enough-for-you-six-weeks-ago if she wants to go get a cup … Read more
I seemed to have struck a minor chord with my hatred for database triggers. I had very few comments, but a handful of emails and exchanged even more tweets on the subject. But one thing was made clear to me and that is people wanted to hear about why I disdain NULL values. Fortunately for me … Read more
