I’ve written before about how much I love looking for outliers. One example of this can be found in the post I did on the sysjobhistory table. Recently I was asked to put together some code to find out which backups were “running long”. Of course my first question was trying to define what was … Read more
A few weeks ago I was asked to provide a “user story” regarding a project. I had never heard the term before, so I had to go find out what this person was talking about. Binoogle (yeah, that’s right, I still compare searches from Bing and Google) returned the top choice as an article on … Read more
I have two children, ages six and five (Happy Birthday to the boy today, BTW), and they went through a phase where they would ask “why?” for just about everything imaginable. They either grew out of this phase or grew tired of my circular reasoning which resulted in conversations such as: “Papa, why [whatever]?” “I … Read more
I seemed to have struck a minor chord with my hatred for database triggers. I had very few comments, but a handful of emails and exchanged even more tweets on the subject. But one thing was made clear to me and that is people wanted to hear about why I disdain NULL values. Fortunately for me … Read more
Found this interesting link: http://www.sixsigmacompanies.com/archive/erie_county_saves_a_cool_15_mil.html Naysayers will always exist, no matter what.
Have you ever found yourself applying skills learned in a training class towards your everyday lives (work and/or home life)? It happened to me just last night, as my wife (sometimes referred to as my Congress) needed some help with a brochure she was putting together for her business. By now your first question is … Read more
