Brent Ozar – SQL Server DBA

No computer upgrade is complete without a little blood loss. My desktop started locking up randomly today, and I realized I was using a power supply with a questionable history from Erika’s old computer. I had to make yet another run out for computer gear, this time blowing $50 on a new Antec [...]

My vacation memories: Frys. I’ve made half a dozen trips to Frys this week grabbing various little bits and pieces. My home server (which serves the web site you’re looking at) was powered by a clapped-out Celeron 400, which has been replaced with a hand-me-down 800 from my desktop. I bought a new [...]

All is not lost. We spent the day at Galveston, walking around the beach and shopping. Of all the shops we went into, the last place I would have expected to pick something up was Mikasa – but we got a teapot and a glass cordial decanter. I owe Erika five (now [...]

So much for rest and relaxation. Everything that could go wrong, did – our flights were overbooked, the timing was wrong, and even when we’d gone home and figured the night was over, it managed to get worse – I got food poisoning. Unreal. So now I’m typing this from home, and [...]

On the road again… Vacation time. After a frenzied couple of weeks, I’m ready to hit the road and relax. I won’t have my laptop with me, but I’ll check the site remotely and maybe post a blog or two.
Been doing the Ebay thing a lot this week. Got a nifty addition [...]

Web site updates coming right along… Well, I took the day off to get away from the computer a while, and I realized I hadn’t published a lot of the changes I’d made over the last few days. The site is in dot-Net now, and yesterday I scanned some new photos and set up [...]

Well, it’s coming along. Let’s see how this works.
And of course, it won’t save multilines.

Here we go! I’m in the process of converting the site from plain old ASP to dot-Net. I figured while I was at it, I’d give the site a bunch of new functionality. Here, for example, is my new database-driven blog.
The changes are being driven by two things: I was dying to [...]