About Jeremiah

I'm a senior database administrator with Cass Information Systems, a SQL Server MVP, director-at-large with PASS, and I also help out with my local chapter and the Application Development virtual chapter.

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Pay Attention

What are you doing right now? How many different things are you trying to balance? Stop all of them and pay attention. No, seriously, do it. Nobody is going to die in the next five minutes. Unless you’re in surgery or something. In which case go do your job.
I’m here reminding you that you need [...]

March 9th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Personal, nonsense, syndication | 8 comments

T-SQL Tuesday 4: Io, Io, it's off to disk we go

Io was a nymph. True story. Apparently, her father was some kind of river god. In modern times that means you’re likely to catch fire. Back in the days when the Greeks were in charge of things being a river god meant that you were somebody (the Greeks thought the earth was a giant brass [...]

March 9th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: nonsense, syndication | 6 comments

Links for the Week - 2010.02.12

This is more of a “what I’ve been reading” rather than a link dump from previous week’s RSS feed.
A Plea for Plain English – Tony Davis’s “A Plea for Plain English” rings home with me. Far too much writing is full of heavy, pompous words used purely to make the author feel smarter. Joseph [...]

February 13th, 2010 | Category: CSS, Design, nonsense | One comment

How the Hell Did I Get Here?

Paul Randal started this chain post. He tagged Steve Jones who, in turn, tagged Jack Corbett who finally tagged me. I’m pretty sure everyone who nominally makes sense has already been tagged at this point thus leaving Jack to scrape the bottom of the barrel.
Like Jack, I think I could approach this in a number [...]

January 19th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: nonsense, syndication | 16 comments

Knowing and not Knowing

In the IT field, people have the expectation that we’ll always have an answer or a solution. The problem is that we usually don’t have the answer. A lot of the time, we don’t even have the beginnings of a clue. Your reaction when you don’t have an answer speaks volumes. I’m going to use [...]

January 14th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Professional Development, nonsense | 3 comments
 
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