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.
5 Things SQL Server Should DROP
May 11, 2010
When I picture Paul Randal, I picture a guy who likes to run up to a bees nest at a crowded picnic and give it a good couple whacks. You know what I mean, it’s that laughing picture in his twitter profile. Or maybe it’s the devil’s advocate style he has. Maybe it’s his controversial … Read more
Speaking at SNESSUG Wednesday!
May 11, 2010
Back in April, I invited Grant Fritchey to be our inaugural speaker to the Seacoast SQL Server User Group. My guess is he was frustrated with the traffic and time to drive from his office in Rhode Island up to New Hampshire in rush hour traffic. Why? Because shortly after his time speaking with us, … Read more
Check Out These Tools – SQL University
May 7, 2010
Some neat (and free) tools to help you out with SQL Server. This is my second contribution to the SQL University “Tools of The Trade” week series. In part one we had a quick chat about why to look at using various tools to help you out working with SQL Server. In this post, we’ll … Read more
Get You Some Tools – SQL University Spring 2010
May 6, 2010
I don’t know about you, but I’m too busy to do it all. I use tools to help me do my job as a DBA. Let’s talk about some of the tools or types of tools that might help you do your job. This is Week 4 of the Spring 2010 semester of SQL University … Read more
What Service Pack Are Your Client Tools At?
April 27, 2010
So you have a plan to apply service packs to your SQL instances. You test them out and try to keep a regular schedule to ensure they are up to date. That is great. What About SQL Server Management Studio? What about the copy of SSMS that a developer is using to create scripts? This … Read more