Kansas City, Pork, and Performance Tuning

What do all three of those things have in common? Here’s a hint: it’s me! That’s right, this weekend I will be at SQL Saturday #53 in Kansas City. I am especially looking forward to the BBQ crawl on Friday afternoon followed by the Royals game that night. I’ll pick up a KC cap while … Read more

Root Cause Analysis – Asking Why?

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

Acronyms

Be very careful when using acronyms, especially when sending text messages. If you are heading to Six Sigma training, it would be unwise to shorten that to “SS Training”. Trust me, people will get the wrong idea.