As some of you know I kinda blur the lines between DBA and Dev. It kind reminds me of that half-white/half-black painted guy on that old Star Trek episode sometimes. In any case, to satisfy my Developer “dark side” cravings I’ve been reading an excellent book called “Clean Code” by Robert C. Martin. This book… Read More »
This past weekend the Colorado Give Camp down in Denver was held. This being my first Give Camp experience I didn’t know what to expect. It didn’t help that the drive was long and my motivation was low (it being a Friday). To be honest I asked myself if staying for two nights was going… Read More »
Ok, maybe while writing this post I was listening to a little too much Bassnectar (hence the title). However, while planning out a new web app I bumped into this little (~400 lines) chunk of code called Massive by Rob Conery (http://wekeroad.com). The reason it attracted my attention was because I wanted to build an… Read More »
A mix of hospitality, camaraderie, and FREE SQL goodness all were the ingredients to this SQL Saturday. Bolstered by the half dozen or so Colorado speakers this event was held in the small suburb of South Jordan at Neumont University. Presentations offered were SQL security, SSIS, SSAS, and more. A bonus for me was the… Read More »
So I recently inherited some additional sites to manage. Unfortunately some of them were running Classic ASP via IIS5 with a back-end Access (aaargh!) database. Still, I really wasn’t too concerned about anything other than the age of the server and software. After searching Secunia there’s only one known vulnerability (hack to bypass logging). But,… Read More »
Over the past couple weeks now I’ve been studying to upgrade my MCITP certification in SQL Server 2005 to 2008. I was surprised to find that there are basically no books/study materials out there for this. Now I know that most DBAs taking this exam live and breathe SQL Server every day and for them… Read More »
So yesterday Google rolled out version 12 of the Chrome browser. Some improvements and fixes as there usually is, but one thing was missing that you might not have known about: Google Gears. Google Gears added “new” features to browsers that allowed them to store data locally and interact with you desktop via your web… Read More »
If your shop is anything like mine SQL Server is the first to blame when something goes wrong. So what can you do? BASELINE! Kevin Kline (blog | twitter) says it best “How do you know what’s abnormal unless you know what’s normal?” Now there are a lot of third party tools that can do… Read More »
Thomas LaRock (blog | twitter) came up with the idea to post an 11 word “story” in honor of SQL Server 11 (Code-named Denali). In participation in the first “Meme Monday” I give you: Space Running Low, Data In Jeopardy. Larger Hard Drives Create Calm. I also tag: Jason Horner (blog | twitter) Randy Knight… Read More »
Have had a few changes this weekend technology speaking. New Twitter Avatar It was suggested during the last conference that I add a “real” pic as my twitter avatar. I have to say it was kind of frustrating to try and meet new people when they had no idea what I looked like. So I… Read More »
