As we close out the Second Quarter of 2010 it is time to review progress made on the Goals I set at the beginning of the year. Just like the end of Q1, I think […]
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Who2 Article Published
I just had my second article published on June 14, 2010 at SQLServerCentral. I will be posting a follow-up to that article in the near future. The follow-up is related to the discussion in the […]
Certification
There seems to be quite a flurry of talk these days about certification. There is evidence of it in the forums and editorials at SSC, as well as in several personal blogs of various SQL […]
Worst Thing to Do to your DBA
Recently Andy Warren Blogged about things that could drive your DBA mad. There was a lot of feedback on SQLServerCentral about various things that could be done to drive the DBA nuts. Well, I have […]
DBA MD
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 […]
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 […]
PayPeriod Matching
Recently I was asked to alter a report to pull different more meaningful data. The particular report was pulling data from the datawarehouse. It had been recently modified to use a stored procedure (and subsequently […]
Tweet, Tweet, Tweetilly Deet
Social networking and the time crunch.