I just had the opportunity to spend some time with my four year old son at the doctor’s office. It was a painful experience, for my son as well as myself – but for different […]
Month: February 2010
Why All The Fuzz?
I really must thank Steve for his editorial on FizzBuzz. It seemed like a really good topic to do some testing and comparison. Then the comments started rolling in on the topic. This provided more […]
I’m givin’ ‘er all she’s got!
Or am I? As I proceed down the path on a consolidation project, I have taken time to pause and ponder the approach. One driving goal is to shrink our footprint. Another goal is to […]
May I help you?
With the Vancouver games underway, I have been reflecting on the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Those were the greatest winter games ever. With or without the Figure Skating scandal. Upon completion of those games, I […]
DBA.Sleep(8hrs)
I have been pondering recently what helps me to sleep at night. Or, conversely, what prevents me from sleeping at night. This is different than the calls in the middle of the night or the […]
Pirate Latitudes
This is a book that was published posthumously. Michael Crichton wrote this novel and left it “finished” in his attic. I picked it up thinking it might be a good read. Having read it now, […]
In Vs. Inner Join
This is tightly related to another of my forays into tuning some slowly/poorly performing processes.
PayPeriod II
PayPeriod Matching lesson learned.
The Lightening Thief
Review of the Lightening Thief movie in lieu of the Book review.
Relationships
This month Rob Farley is hosting TSQL-Tuesday #3. The topic is Relationships and he has left it wide open for interpretation so long as it can be tied to the theme and SQL Server. At […]