Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out through out the day, I figured that I’d share a list of those that were most popular last week. Last week’s top 10 “Reading” Links MCM – I passed! [26 clicks] The SQL Query Optimizer – when [...]
Do you know anyone that lives in or around the great white north that is Fargo, North Dakota? If so, then I’d like your help in with an introduction on LinkedIn. Let’s see how many people in the area are 6 or less degrees from me. Even if the person isn’t in IT or doesn’t [...]
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have seen back to the forefront. As with many technology blogs, just because a post is old, doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have value. Some posts from years gone by that you [...]
While working on some scripts against SQL Server’s default trace, I wanted to develop a sure fire way to find the location of the default trace regardless of the version of SQL Server and without having to tinker with file names. Since there are a few people that read this blog, I figured I’d share the [...]
It’s been a while since I mentioned anything about the SQL Saturday in Fargo. So I thought I would let people know that we’ve now got ourselves three sponsors – Confio (Silver), PASS (Bronze) and Steve Stedman (Blog). Every little bit helps and we appreciate all of our sponsors. Are you interested in helping to [...]
In the past couple weeks, I’ve gotten a couple reports of issues with sp_indexanalysis. The update today fixes those issues. It’s fun to finally be playing with these scripts again. I’m hoping to start writing blog posts showing the scripts in action in the next couple weeks. INDEX ANALYSIS UPDATES The main updates to the [...]
Today is the first Monday of 2013. Do you know if your servers are ready to take on the first month of the new year? Have you figured out if you have the hardware and capacity to make it through the next year? You should know this and, as a DBA, you should have a [...]
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out through out the day, I figured that I’d share a list of those that were most popular last week. Last week’s top 10 “Reading” Links On Being A Senior Engineer | Kitchen Soap [357 clicks] Minimizing the [...]
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have seen back to the forefront. As with many technology blogs, just because a post is old, doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have value. Some posts from years gone by that you [...]
Last year, I did a wrap up post of the year to see where I landed from where I wanted to be. At the end of that post, I came up with a number of goals for the year. Now’s the time to see how I did with those goals. 2012 Goals Complete SQL Server [...]
