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
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
I was reviewing a manual the other day prior to an upcoming installation. I have leafed through enough of these manuals in my career to spot the good from the bad, and while this particular one still awaits classification, I thought I might rant a bit about some of the crazy things I have seen … Read more
A while back I received an email from a developer who needed to access several databases on a server because not having access was a ‘wall to his productivity’. Well, I am not about to stand in anyone’s way of being productive, so we worked on getting him the access he needs. Of course, I … Read more
Today is the final day for the PASS 2006 Community Summit, and I am quite tired. Still, I am up early and heading over to meet with some of the best DBA’s in the world to discuss an idea that Bill Wunder has regarding an open source initiative. In a nutshell, Bill is looking to … Read more
