Getting Organized – A Task’s Life
July 19, 2010
[This is part two in a series of posts about “Getting Organized” using the Evernote toolset.] Getting Organized Series Outline Introduction and License Giveaway A Task’s Life The Death of a Task, Man 451 Degrees – Good For Notebooks The Life of A Task The system I am using has a few stages. The stages … Read more
Getting Organized – Goodbye Paper?
July 15, 2010
[This is the first in a 4 part series of posts about “Getting Organized” , on track and my use of Evernote.] Getting Organized Series Outline Introduction and License Giveaway A Task’s Life The Death of a Task, Man 451 Degrees – Good For Notebooks Do you struggle with organization? Note taking? Note Finding? I … Read more
T-SQL Tuesday – Captains Mentor and Teach
July 12, 2010
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Robert Davis (@SQLSoldier on Twitter), and he asked us about learning and teaching. More on the Captain Quote at the bottom. (2021 Edit – I was cleaning up some old posts and just found this one. The lessons here are a whole new set of lessons as … Read more
Speaking at Seacoast SQL Server Users Group
July 8, 2010
Live in or near the Seacoast region of New Hampshire? The Seacoast SQL Server User group meets every second Tuesday of the month at 6:15 and so far we have had a great time at the meetings. I blogged about our inaugural meeting here and am excited to watch the membership grow and to see … Read more
Linked Server Query Running Slow?
July 8, 2010
Is your SQL Server Linked Server Query running slow? Check your permissions. Maybe this is old news to you but it wasn’t for me –> It was a good day. We had finally migrated onto brand new hardware (and saw a 250% improvement in run times of most warehouse jobs). I had finally cleaned up … Read more
Hey Software Vendors – Get a Clue!
July 2, 2010
Psst. Hey Vendor – DBAs are secretly plotting against you! We hate what your products do to our environments. Sometimes we even work to get you replaced by someone else who makes a product in the same space but is “DBA-Approved”… (Quick Edit March of 2021). In the time since writing this post, I’ve grown … Read more
Life Changes – 2 For The Price Of 1
June 8, 2010
Why make one major life change when I can make two within weeks of each other??? This will be a busy June for your blogger. Busy for the normal summer time fun and family activities but even busier because I embark on two new noteworthy journeys in life. What are they??? I’ll start with the … Read more
Why Hire A SQL Server DBA?
May 24, 2010
Why would anyone hire a DBA? Isn’t SQL Set-It-And-Forget-It?
Plan To Fail – Part Two
May 19, 2010
Let me share a little secret with you – You are going to fail. You’ll have multiple failures in diverse areas in life. It’s what you do with them that predicts if you’ll be an overall success. In the first post of this two part series, we talked about including failure in our plans and … Read more
Plan To Fail Or Don’t Expect To Succeed
May 18, 2010
In this post I’m going to let you in on a secret- You are going to fail. More than once and in more than one way. It’s what you do with the failure that matters.