It has been a while since I last wrote something for a meme monday. This month is a perfect time to jump back in the deep end. If you don’t know what a meme monday […]
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Another Color Wheel
Some time ago, I had the opportunity to work on a problem involving the color wheel. The requirements for that problem lent themselves to a solution involving bitwise operations (which you can read here). I […]
Quick and Dirty Index Info
From time to time, somebody needs to find some information about the indexes in the database. As DBA’s, there are a few tools at your disposal to look up that information. The required/requested information is […]
Haunting a Database Near You
Today, we have a special Halloween edition. For me, Halloween and computer geek go quite well together. And thinking about it, I wanted to try to better understand if there was a correlation. As a […]
October 2011 LV UG Meeting Update
This is a republish due to a last minute change!!! We had to reschedule the October meeting due to unforeseen circumstances. The only change is the date of the event. The meeting is now Oct […]
Reach for the Select *s
Do you have your head in the clouds? Have you wanted to take flight? Have you been called “Space Case” If you are a DB Professional, then all of these could very well become true. […]
An Interesting Sort
I just came across a pretty peculiar sort requirement. The requirement made me sit and think a bit. Since it was somewhat peculiar, I decided I would share the solution. So, let’s start with a […]
October 2011 LV UG Meeting
Boo! OK, so it really isn’t that scary. But it is that time of year and we happen to have something that could fix something that might be scary. It is time once again for […]
Data Head
Well, it’s official. I am a Data Head. It doesn’t change too much my level of geekiness. But I may have to rethink one of the answers given during that interview. The Data Head profiles […]
In The SQL News
There is a lot of stuff going on out there these days. I am looking forward to a few things. And since I am looking forward to them, I thought there are others out there […]