Goals Update–July 2011
At the start of the year I posted a few goals that I was looking to achieve. April brought around a goals update post. Now that July is here it’s time for another update. Certification After...
View ArticlePASS Summit 2011 – Opening Keynote
It’s Wednesday morning and time for the opening keynote. The bloggers tables are filling up as we get ready for what we hope is not another Tina Turner spectacular. Journey playing over the speakers....
View ArticlePASSS Summit 2011 – Day 2 Keynote
8:17 – Bill Graziano hits the stage wearing a kilt. Good start. Shout out to the kilted. Nice start injecting some humor. Bill’s parents watching the keynote from home. Nice. Celebrating volunteers....
View ArticleGoing Into Standby Using Powershell
Since moving to Windows 8 on my primary laptop I have found myself using PowerShell to perform shutdown and restart tasks. For me hitting the charms and going through the options to do a simple...
View ArticleISNULL & Data Length Handling
Some folks are not fans of having NULL values in your data. I am not much of a fan myself, however sometimes (all the time) they are a reality in which we have to deal. When working with NULL there are...
View ArticleApathy, or something like it
Do you ever have those days where nothing seems right? Where the things that usually get you going at work just aren’t? Maybe a few days when, instead of being excited about the new shiny, you are...
View ArticleApathy -The Overworked Predicament
In the first post in the Apathy series we took a general look at some of the reasons for apathy, now it is time to dig a little deeper and see what, if anything, can be done to make you care again....
View ArticleApathy – The On-Call Indisposition
Post number four in the Apathy series covers on-call, something which has been the bane of many a DBA and sysadmin over the years. More recently this has become a cause of consternation for developers,...
View ArticleApathy – The Unappreciated Dejection
Part five of the Apathy series focuses on those times when you work hard but receive little, or no appreciation for what you do (or even worse, someone else gets the credit). Doing your job is all...
View ArticleWho Needs a DBA?
I was perusing my RSS Feeds this morning, and came across an article by Steve Jones (b|t) about Changing Times. In this post Steve talks about Microsoft not having any DBAs in their cloud team, and...
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