Thomas LaRockHas it been a month since my last post? Wow, time really does fly. With everything that went on in the past four weeks, it is easy to see how time can slip. There was Mother’s Day, birthdays, my anniversary, prepping for 70-447, a dance recital, building a base for my marathon training, and getting … Read more
I have had a few surprises since my last post. First, three people posted comments. That means three people are reading this blog, which is three more than I would have thought. I had no idea anyone was listening to my crazy ramblings. But there I was, sitting at my iMac the other night, and … Read more
Who are the people driving the design work in your shop? Here, all database design work is done by the application developers. In most cases, they have little or no experience with database design. Words like normalization, foreign keys, and indexes are concepts that they have never been introduced to in their line of work. … Read more
The other day I asked myself “What is it you enjoy most about your job?” After thinking for a day or so, trying to find something enjoyable about where I am, and what I do, it finally came to me. So I said to myself, “Self, what I enjoy most about my job are the … Read more
About six months ago I had a bomb dropped in my lap with regards to stored procedure debugging in SS2K5. A developer happened to make an attempt to debug a CLR stored proc and forwarded me some links describing that he needed to be a member of sys admin in order to debug. “Well, that … Read more
It has been a while since my last post, and for that I apologize. Things have been hectic…dare I say it…crazy? My mind is spinning with everything that I have been diving into. Right now my focus is on the section of tools that are labeled as “BI”. I see the evolution of database administration … Read more
