These are my recent favorite links:
- Comic for September 22, 2009 – Why you can’t telecommute.
- The Beginner’s Guide to Tricking Out Your WordPress Blog [WordPress] – Similar to my series on getting started with blogging, but updated with more goodness.
- 10 Best Things We’ll Say to Our Grandkids – With such gems as, “There used to be so much snow up here, you could strap a board to your feet and slide all the way down.”
- Five Stars Dominate Ratings – The vast majority of video ratings on YouTube are five stars. Interesting questions about what it means for reviewers and data.
- Our Look at The New Microsoft Office Web Apps – A screenshot tour of the web-based MS Office.
- The Etymology of Consulting – Dilbert cartoon about what you get when you combine con and insult.
- Step by Step Guide to Creating a SQL Server VM Using VMWare – And yes, you CAN virtualize SQL Server and still get good performance.
- Lousy HA is Not Necessarily Better Than No HA – This is so freakin’ true. Adding clustering, for example, increases the number of things in your server that can go bump in the night. I’d go so far as to say that I’ve worked with more lousy clusters than good clusters.
- Links for the Week 2009.09.20 – Jeremiah Peschka’s favorite reading for last week. Good stuff.
- Awesome Blogs of the Month – SEP ‘09 – Rhonda is a ferocious reader. She always does a great job with linkposts, and now she’s cluing you in to some more good blogs.
- The Value of a Mentor – The fastest way to get ahead is to get advice from somebody who’s already done it.
- Updated SQL Blogger Rankings – Tom LaRock updates his list of top bloggers.
- Identifying Frequently Running Queries – By SQL Server tuning guru Grant Fritchey.
- The SQLBits Mug Shot Competition – SQLBits goes West – 19-21 Nov 2009 – Newport – Want a free registration for SQLBits in Great Britain? Just take a mug shot picture.
- A Simple Active/Passive Configuration Change To Reduce Downtime – Make your blog posts more interesting by using the active voice. NOW, DAMMIT! (That’s me trying to be active.)
- Estimated rows, actual rows and execution count – Another one of Gail Shaw’s excellent posts about query execution.
- The Great Breakup – Removing application servers from SQL Servers.
- ADFS Authentication Failure – If SQL fails when a domain controller is rebooted, you’ve got this issue.
- On the search for the perfect OLAP browser – A comparison review of some of the big OLAP players.
- DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP bug on SQL Server 2008 – if you’re using a table on multiple filegroups (like partitioning) and you’re running DBCC on just one filegroup at a time, it’s probably not working.
Unfortunately, there’s more, but the WordPress plugin I’m using will only import 15 bookmarks per hour. Grumble. To see the full list of what I’ve been reading lately, either check out my Delicious bookmarks or subscribe to my Google Reader feed.