SQL Server Links
SQL Rap Contest – Michelle Ufford, Ward Pond and I are judging a database rap contest. You can win an iPod Touch for your dope rhymes.
Functions, IO Statistics and Execution Plans – Gail Shaw does another awesome blog with T-SQL scripts and screenshots.
Interview Questions for Junior DBAs – by SQLBatman.
Interview Questions for Any DBAs – by Grant Fritchey. I would hate to answer the difference between a block and a deadlock because I can’t do it without using a whiteboard. I dunno what it is, but there’s some concepts I just can’t explain without a marker in my hand. It’s not like I do a good job of drawing, either.
Why Doesn’t SQL Server Do Stuff Automatically? – Paul Randal (who joined Twitter this week along with Kimberly Tripp) explains why enterprise-quality development isn’t as easy as it looks.
Rollbacks Inside Triggers – Jonathan Kehayias shows you what happens. All this blog posts needs is a cursor and a UDF, and it would be the perfect storm.
ServerFault Private Beta Open – It’s like StackOverflow, but for sysadmins instead of programmers. K Brian Kelley is already intent on outpacing me on there, but he’d better watch out next week: I’m on vacation, and I’m going to be sitting here hitting refresh waiting for new questions to come in. (Not really – I’ve hired two assistants to do that for me.)
New SQL Server Blog Rankings Out – SQLBatman updates his list, and adds new user databases.
Cloud and Virtualization Links
Meh, nothing big this week.
The Junk Drawer
XKCD Does Song Mashups – wow. Shown here:
XKCD
Google Android “Backward Compatibility” – lemme get this straight: there has been only one phone for Android (the T-Mobile G1) and there’s a new version of Android (the phone OS) coming, and the apps aren’t all going to be backwards compatible? ONE PHONE? After one single phone, you change the OS so much that apps aren’t compatible? C’mon, people. And you wonder why the iPhone has such rabid consumer loyalty.
IntenseDebate Has Scaling Problems – I tried using their comment plugin here at BrentOzar.com for a while and had to throw it back out due to speed problems. Turns out I’m not alone.
I saw the blog post about ServerFault. Was contemplating joining in, but I don’t have that much rep on stack overflow (no time mostly)
Think there’s space for someone who knows a bit about recovery and corruption there?
Yeah, definitely! There’s instructions in the blog post on how to get in if you don’t have 100 reputation. I wanna say that you just have to fill out your profile on StackOverflow.com to make it to 100 reputation though.
The profile’s complete, I just don’t spend much time there.
http://stackoverflow.com/users/9342/gilamonster
I’m glad I was too busy (lazy) to implement Intense Debate.
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