By 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
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
Apparently, my domain has bumped up against a bandwidth issue with the web host. While we can easily correct the issue by setting a new default, it made me realize just how bad it is for me to maintain this blog. In fact, I think I can hear the sounds of the trees being bulldozed … Read more
I have received a discount code for the SSWUG Virtual Conference. You can register for the conference here. And the code you want to use is: SPVTLASP09 The discount is for $10 off the registration price of $125, and can be used in conjunction with other discounts, such as the Early Bird ($80). So, if … Read more
