We need to talk. You may not know me, but I'm one of your readers. You've become part of my routine. I really like your stuff, but I've never really said anything until now. I don't want to leave a comment, because there's not really a place in your blog to leave comments like this. I ...
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 ...
Mike Walsh (Blog - Twitter) is celebrating his one year anniversary as a blogger by revisiting why he got started, passing on tips to other bloggers, and upping his game. He interviewed me about how I got started blogging, how I've changed along the way, and some tips that I'd recommend new bloggers ...
We've got two new syndicated bloggers at SQLServerPedia this week! Adam Haines Adam (Blog) is an MCP Database Administrator/Developer and a proud recipient of the MVP award. He's been in databases since 2004, first in the banking industry as a database analyst. He transitioned into his current DBA & developer role in 2007, and still ...
Here's my bookmarked links for October 26th through October 30th: SQL Server Links Windows Azure Platform Launch Update - The blog notes that "a number of new features in Windows Azure will be made available for the first time" - but it's at PDC, not the Professional Association for SQL Server Summit. This should be ...
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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