T-SQL Tuesday #009: An Ounce of Prevention
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday, “T-SQL Tuesday #009: Beach Time” is hosted by Jason Brimhall (Blog/Twitter) aka the sqlrnnr. The topic is: What do you do as a DB professional to earn a little “Beach...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #010: Partitioned Indexes and Data Types
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday, “T-SQL Tuesday #010: What are your thoughts on Database Indexes?” is hosted by Michael J Swart (Blog/Twitter) aka the Database Whisperer. The topic is: Indexes. Riddle me...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #011 –Be Aware of the Semaphore…err…Sophomore
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday, “Misconceptions in SQL Server” is hosted by Sankar Reddy (Blog/Twitter). According to freedictionary.com, the word “sophomore” was influenced by Greek words “sophos” –...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #012 – Smart, Technologically Up-to-date, Well-Meaning...
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday, “Why are DBA skills necessary?” is hosted by Paul Randal (Blog/Twitter). I’ve worked at many different sized companies. I worked for a company that went from from 300...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving from SQL Feather and Quill
Happy Thanksgiving – sorry it’s a day late – I’ve had some technical difficulties up in Grand Marais. I’m writing this in response to Jason Strate’s (blog/twitter) post asking “What are you thankful...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #014 – The 3 P’s
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday’s topic is “Resolutions” and is hosted by Jen McCown (Blog/Twitter). Here’s how I see it, my 2011 resolutions break down to the 3 Ps: PASSMN, Powershell and Present. If I...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #016 – The Power of the CHECKSUM_AGG
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday, “Aggregate Functions” is hosted by Jes Schultz Borland (Blog/Twitter) aka grrlgeek. The Task One of my duties as a development DBA is to verify our databases are set up the...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #21 – 9 Tips to avoid the HACK title
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday Wednesday topic is “reveal your crap to the world” and is hosted by the T-SQL Tuesday originator, or the Godfather as I like to call him – Adam Machanic (Blog/Twitter)....
View ArticleSupport me and Team #SQLPlunge for the Special Olympics
On March 3, 2012 I will be jumping into a hole in the ice in Lake Calhoun to raise money for the Special Olympics. One item on my bucket list will be crossed off – I don’t think I want to get good at...
View ArticleTop 10 Technological Time Savers to Keep in Touch
Social media these days can be a full time job – at least I could easily kill many hours per week in this area. My job doesn’t allot any time for twitter, blogging, reading blogs, etc. Therefore if I...
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