OK everyone, nice job against DB2 U the other night. Now, we don’t have any games this week but next week we have to travel up to play UDB. We know they are disciplined on defense, so we are going to work on some set plays. We have been getting lazy with some of our … Read more
Back in September of 2004 I attended my very first PASS Summit. It was held in Orlando and the timing was perfect because the event organizers knew in advance to have it right after a hurricane rather than during. On a whim I had decided to attend a pre-conference seminar (and somehow managed to convince … Read more
A few weeks back I was asked how long a backup took for a specific database. I knew the info was in the msdb somewhere so I pieced together a bit of code and then thought to myself “hey, this might be a good thing to share with others at MSSQLTips”. Well, OK, I actually … Read more
Today is the last day for the conference, and I am quite tired. To make things worse, my flight out of here is at 6:30AM tomorrow morning. Ick. I checked on some options to leave earlier, but none were viable. So, it looks like I will head to dinner with some friends, stay up most … Read more
