Apparently, someone is concerned with Google searches: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10140142-54.html Now, why are they focusing on Google? I mean, how many hits a day does Amazon.com get? Why pick on Google? What about MSN.com? (I would ask about Live Search but chances are not enough people bother using that for it to matter as far as power … Read more
Last week while I was trying to have a vacation in Las Vegas, something came up at work that seemed rather strange. It seems that our monitoring scripts for a particular server stopped working. Worse, our backups also started failing. We can live without monitoring for a period of time, but we really need to … Read more
A while back I started to realize something. Well, besides the fact that I have never had sex at the end of an interview, or have ever actually eaten whale bacon, I realized that I see Super Villains almost daily. I spent some time trying to classify a few of my more well-known enemies and perhaps as … Read more
Recently we had a team member decide it was time for them to move on to a new opportunity. As such I found myself a part of the interview process, something we had not done in a few years. I have not had to interview for a job in eight years and I honestly hope … Read more
Once again I will be taking part in the SSWUG Virtual Conference on April 22-24th. I presented three topics last year and managed to make such a fool of myself that they asked me to come back again and do four talks this time. The talks I have on tap are as follows: SQL 2008 … Read more
One of my favorite new features for SQL 2008 is the ability to run commands against all your registered instances immediately. For me that saves time as I have over 150 instances (and growing). The other day I was reading Tim Ford’s blog entry about xp_logininfo which led to an exchange of emails between Tim … Read more
