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
vs. The week of SQLSaturday Nashville would prove to be a most eventful week. Monday I would be on my work to work riding on a two-lane road a dump truck would decide to turn into the passenger side of the car. Thankfully no one was hurt. But it did result
Earlier this week the folks at PASS reached out to last year’s speakers asking us to share a story of how speaking at PASS impacted us professionally or personally. At first we I received the email saying I had been selected I was at a speaker’s dinner for a SQL
Just in case you missed it I wrote a blog post for Idera on creating a PowerShell module using Plaster you can find it here. It simplifies an earlier blog post I wrote and the same subject with some information I learned from Rob Sewell. This month I have one
One of the things I have enjoyed about working at ChannelAdvisor is being in the EAP program in Microsoft the last two years. This year that included going to the first ever SQLCAT customer engagement lab for SQL on Linux and seen firsthand how committed Microsoft is to making SQL
This will be a very short blog post to make you aware of a bug in CU2 for all of those who I know have eagerly installed the newest CU for 2017. A small bug I have found is that it changes your compatibility mode on the msdb database to
I spoke at PASS Summit on monitoring availability groups to a crowd of about 200 people and received feedback from about 30 people. I must say the feedback was all over the map from me doing really well to me doing just OK. I wish more people would take time
My environment has over 400 servers and we use MSX/TSX to manage those servers but we want to be able to have different parameters on different servers. Plus we have the need to run Ola’s scripts on Linux with sqlcmd not available in SQL Agent we will need T-SQL jobs. So
I re-branded my website to match my job title. I like the comic book feel and superhero theme. At had a few designs to pick from but went with a classic American superhero with red and blue colors logo with ripping off their shirt jumping into action which is the way