Asians are better at math due to their language and because they live in rice paddies. But don’t just take my word for it, take Malcolm Gladwell’s. That’s one of his assertions in “Outliers: The Story of Success.” I’ve written before about that book and I found myself thinking about it again the other day while … Read more
I wanted to take a moment to point out this VMWare KB article I came across recently. I really do love how the KB article points out the need for accurate disk configurations. I often see misconfigured disks resulting in a performance bottleneck for a virtualized environment. So that part of the KB was great for me to see … Read more
Nobody starts a database project with failure in mind. And yet, it would seem as if the majority of all such projects end up with some degree of failure. Oh sure, some are small failures, like the design didn’t last the full seven years as promised. Other failures are more stunning in their glory; I’ve … Read more
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
This is a great little video that helps reinforce a few things. Make sure your backups are running. Test your recovery strategy. Working from home can solve everything.
You have no idea that what you are not doing is causing you pain. Then again, how could you know this? I mean, if you are not doing it, why would you ever think that your inaction could be the very thing that is causing you heartache every time your phone rings in the middle … Read more
