I am not certain at what point in my life I became so detail oriented. I am one of those “a place for everything and everything in its place” people, and I rely on details in my current position as a DBA. I need details, lots of them, and I need them to be accurate … Read more
At this time of year I find myself doing what most people are doing, stand in line, return gifts, and reflect upon things I am thankful for, such as store credit. I am also thankful for gift cards, for mild weather to keep the snow away, and for my beautiful, healthy children. But today I … Read more
The other day I needed to describe the funny sound my car was making to my mechanic. If anyone is reading this there is probably a good chance that you have tried to do something similar at some point in your life. maybe not your car, but at some point you have had the need … Read more
I received an email from a colleague the other day. He was having some issues with a job running in SQL Agent. Essentially, the code inside one of the steps would raise an error, and the step would immediately end. Now, we all know that there are limited options for any job step (Quit Reporting … Read more
So there I am, sitting in my cube, slaving away in front of my screen, trying to figure out which team to take in this week’s NFL Survivor pool, when the phone rings and interrupts me from my task. “CrazyDBA speaking.” “There’s something wrong with the database server” “Okay, which one?” “I don’t know.” “You … Read more
So, PASS 2007 is over. It has been done for the past week now, and I have been piecing together my thoughts since then. I started thinking about PASS in general, then I started to focus on specific items such as “what do I get for my membership fee”? In the past week I have … Read more
