New SQLServerPedia Blogger – Mike Hillwig

The #SSPDreamTrip contest to win a free trip to the PASS Summit has encouraged another community member to start blogging.

Today’s new blogger is Mike Hillwig (Blog – Twitter), an active member of the Twitter community and foodie. Here’s his official bio from the site:

Mike Hillwig is a database administrator living and working in the Boston area. He currently works for a high tech company that makes IP telephony technology devices. Mike represents the little guys in database environments. His databases are measured in gigabytes and not terabytes. And he has hundreds of users and not thousands. Mike is also a Crystal Reports Jedi Master. Contrary to the blog name, Mike is very much a fun-loving person. He does get cranky with developers who don’t understand the concept of referential integrity.

Mike’s already making great contributions in his first few blog posts, which include:

Using Sysjobhistory to Find Out What’s Taking Too Long – SQL Server stores job history data including runtimes, and you can use this data to alert you when a job is taking longer than its historical average.
An Object By Any Other Name – object naming standards can start religious wars.
Giving Microsoft Access a seat at the table – but only if you put a whoopie cushion down first. (Ha ha ho ho.)

Mike’s also talked to me about writing a wiki article for SQLServerPedia about using SQL Server as a job scheduler. I’ve mentioned that I think a job scheduler belongs in the application server, not in SQL Server, but Mike has good points that will make a great article. I’m looking forward to it!

We’ve got several more wiki articles that have been recently posted and are going through the editing process. It’s first come first serve, and I’m already seeing multiple people try to write the same article topics. Make sure to get yours started quickly – start fleshing out the skeleton in the wiki rather than working on it on your own computer. That way, we’ll be more likely to use your article as the original, and the other person’s article as an enhancement to it.

Want to throw your hat in the ring? Check out the contest rules, and good luck!

Brent Ozar

Brent specializes in performance tuning for SQL Server, VMware, and storage. He's one of the very few Microsoft Certified Masters of SQL Server, a published author, and a Microsoft MVP. He likes travel, Jeeps, Apple gear, jokes, and writing about himself in the third person. Read more and contact Brent.

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