Category: Miscellaneous

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday blog is brought to us by Mohammd Dorab (b | t) and this month topic is about what you would tell your 20-year-old self now that you are further along in your career. I have five pieces of advice I would give myself to the 20-year-old

Mentorship is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor as defined by Webster’s dictionary.  I believe it involved a little more than that.  It also involves investing time in the mentee and personally being interested in rather they succeed in their aspirations.  As a member and participate in

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