I am getting this out extremely late. I seriously have good excuses for that. Due to my location and Charley feeling ill, we will be doing the S3OLV UG meeting entirely virtual this month. Here […]
Category: The Corner dep
T-SQL Tuesday #15 DBA Automaton
Often, we hear about DBA’s automating everything under the sun. Why? It simplifies the job and creates time to work on other projects.
Immersions Training
The last week of January 2011, I wrote a blog post entering a contest for free training at the hands of SQLSkills. Later that week an announcement was made as to the winner(s) of that […]
The Lost Hero – A review
With what looks to be five books planned in a new series by Rick Riordan, people have some good fantasy ahead of them. I just finished the first installment in this new series and must […]
SQLCruise Contest
For those who may not have heard, there is training for SQL Professionals called SQL Cruise. You can find more info here. There is a bit of interesting news for an upcoming cruise. There is […]
SSIS Job Execution
While working on a process to refresh the QA environment (data purge, reload data and reapply changes made over time as parts of release cycles), I ran into self-imposed requirement. I was attempting to create […]
SQL Confessions
I had a brainstorm of an idea for a group of articles on my blog a couple of weeks ago and am finally getting around to putting it together. The idea came about while I […]
Defensive Db Programming Chapter 07
We are here again after another …um long lapse in time … and ready for another episode in this series. Today we get to talk about chapter 7 in the book by Alex Kuznetsov (Blog). […]
DB Maintenance
About a month ago I read a post by Brad McGehee (Blog | Twitter) concerning a checklist for SQL Server. It seems to be a rather comprehensive list. If you don’t have some sort of […]
Voting Day is Here
Tis the season for voting and SQLServerPedia has thrown out an election as well. The SQLServerPedia awards are under way and voting will last until Nov. 9th. Surprisingly, I have a couple of nominations. I […]