Rough Year, But 50 Kids, Can’t Beat That! Last year was a pretty rough year personally. I totaled two cars, not my fault big trucks like to make turns into little cars, a crisis with a friend, and a mental health crisis still ongoing from June. But I’ve stuck out
In the past 5 months I have started two different jobs, so that leaves it up in the air as to which job or jobs (plus a previous job did some of these) are practicing these bad habits but these are the top 10 things that drive DBAs crazy when
Wow! The last five years of my career have been amazing. I went from attending a SQLSaturday a couple of times a year to being a coauthor of a book. Given all the obstacles I’ve had to overcome in life this truly is an amazing accomplishment. It’s on the list
Sorry readers, I was having some many adventures there was no June edition. In May, I had SQLSaturday Dallas where I got to drive a pickup truck because what else would you drive in Texas. I presented my newest and most popular related series of blog posts Collecting Performance Metrics the
We recently discovered some of our databases in an Error State for SQL Server. Microsoft has indicated this is a race condition when failover/restart happens on QDS cleanup. They are working on a bug fix for it. For now, it suggested you set up something that checks your databases to see
Well, three SQL Saturdays down for April. Raleigh which was local for me and I helped organize, Philadelphia where I got to give two talks, and Wheeling which made the news. At least this month we had spring weather for all of them. On the way to Philadelphia, the crew
I had two SQL Saturdays this month SQLSaturday Chicago and SQLSaturday Rochester both of which were very cold. Hopefully, the winter SQLSaturdays are over, for now, I want it to be spring and see no more snow for awhile. I know I’m a baby, but I’m used to North Carolina
I had two SQL Saturdays this month SQLSaturday Cleveland (which was very cold) and SQLSaturday Tampa (which had very nice weather). Now for the adventurous parts of both trips. Well besides worrying about snow, Cleveland was in Hyland Software and there was the really cool slide that I may or may not have went down 6
This month Aaron Bertrand (b | t) has given us a Dealer’s Choice on the T-SQL Tuesday topic. I’m of course going to take the chance to talk about something I’m passionate about. It’s not something people would consider fun but it’s what I enjoy spending my spare time on. Warning
We Speak Linux I am super excited to be to have launched this website. We Speak Linux is a place for Windows Administrators and SQL Server DBAs to learn more about the Linux operating system. There are plenty of good sources for information about Linux on the internet, but with