Next week I will be attending the 2012 Microsoft MVP Summit. This will be my third Summit but it feels like my first because there are going to be a lot of new faces there for the first time. That’s why I wanted to take the time to remind everyone that the MVP Summit is essentially … Read more
If your DBA is still adding Windows logins to your database servers then they are doing it wrong. Using logins (versus Windows groups) is an inefficient method that hasn’t been considered a favorable practice for almost ten years. Oh…sure…it works. I won’t argue that point. But if you are administering hundreds of database servers and you are using … Read more
Last year I wrote a book review about The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture. The short of it is this: there is a shortage of fact checkers. And no, having facts checked by a community of users (AKA: Wikipedia) doesn’t work because those are the same amateurs that are running … Read more
You never see the termites, you only see the damage they have done. And by then it is often too late. Same with corruption inside of your database. Often time most folks have no idea there is any issue until it is too late. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a quick and easy … Read more
Today I did a guest post over at the SQL Server team blog and you can click here to go read it for yourself. Go ahead, I can wait. Done? Good. I listed out three things that you can do right now to jumpstart your career. Of course there’s more ways than just those. Some … Read more
Next Monday is the first Monday of the month, which means it is time for your writing assignments. The topic this time around will be: working with deadlines. Think about any tips or tricks you have with regards to working with (or around) deadlines. Your stories and experience with getting stuff done with only minutes … Read more
