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Speaking is so done

Honestly, I’m tired of speaking. PowerPoint is overrated. People want more or less bullet points. It’s never enough. More graphs. More pie charts. Less funny images. More dinosaurs. Stop showing pictures of Zeus sexing up a goat. I don’t know what you people want!
Demos – you can shove those, too. People complain when the code [...]

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 [...]

My MacGyver Moment

David Stein started this current blog meme. He passed the buck on to Brent Ozar, who shared a horrifying tale of his time in the trenches as a developer. Brent then thoughtfully pointed at me and demanded that I carry on the blog meme torch.
Blog memes are great. They give me an opportunity to pretend [...]

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 [...]

The First Ever Log Reader Awards

Starting today, and ending on Friday, October 16th, you can submit a blog post, or series of blog posts, to the 2009 Log Reader Awards.
What is it?
You’re probably asking yourself “What’s a Log Reader Award?” Well, dear reader, a Log Reader Award is an award created by bloggers (myself, Andy Warren, and Brent Ozar) to [...]