Every now and then, I get frustrated with the way my web site looks. I toss a stick of dynamite at it and start fresh. This weekend I splurged on the Headway WordPress theme, a premium theme that has a slick GUI editor. I can make different pages look wildly different without too much effort. [caption ...
I’ll be presenting at the Nashville PASS chapter, an all-day virtual conference, and SQLSaturday Chicago! Come join me – all of these events are completely free.
David Stein (Blog - @Made2Mentor) started a neat new meme: My McGuyver Moment. He talked about a time where he cobbled together a workable solution out of a coat hanger, two tube socks, and a Mentos. He tagged me, and so now you get to hear about one of my ...
Every year, Microsoft hosts an MVP Summit event at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington. MVPs pay their own airfare to get to the event, but once you're there, Microsoft picks up the tab for food & hotels. MVPs have to share a room, and I think that's fine because it emphasizes the community ...
Just got some more giveaways for SQLSaturday Chicago courtesy of our publisher, Wiley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYcxog2R5sE Thanks so much to Wiley for supporting the community!
A few months back, Microsoft gave MVPs a few MSDN Ultimate subscriptions to pass on to community members, no strings attached. I quietly gave mine to a few deserving folks who I thought could be future MVPs, but Arnie Rowland (Blog – @ArnieRowland) had a better idea. Arnie’s Project Phoenix encourages developers to propose a [...]
Read More »A few months ago, I had The Idea. I wanted to conduct SQL Server training on a cruise ship. I emailed a few buddies and offered to start a company called SQLCruise with them, and out of three friends, only one could say yes. I don’t have anything against the two who said no. I [...]
Read More »Most SQL Server DBAs don’t even like MySQL, let alone NoSQL. They cringe when they hear people say things like, “I don’t need transactions” or “The data will eventually be consistent” or “Indexes will be supported in the next version.” SQL Server and Oracle people are constantly trying to out-feature each other, and the abject [...]
Read More »In August 2008, Lady Gaga released her premier album The Fame. This 13-track work produced several hit singles including Just Dance, Poker Face, and Paparazzi – but it also produced plenty of controversy. Her exaggerated use of fashion, musical cliches, and sex gave her plenty of media attention – both good and bad. If you’ve [...]
Read More »Pop quiz: should you be worried if your SQL Server’s page life expectancy is averaging 214? There’s only one correct answer: it depends.
Performance tuning is all about finding the RIGHT bottleneck, focusing on it, and fixing it to the application owner’s satisfaction. Learn what happens if you don’t do it right.
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