This has nothing to do with turtles. Just in case you didn’t figure it out, I wanted to make that clear. However, I am really excited to announce that I’m joining Quest Software as a Database Expert. My official job title is still up in the air, but let’s talk a little bit about what [...]
Ever have someone leave the company only to find out that they own critical database processes… because that process failed? It hasn’t happened to me, yet, but a recent Active Directory outage this weekend got me thinking about it.
A while back, I wrote up a genius piece of code that would automatically shrink my log files whenever they grew.
Kendra Little (blog | twitter) completely called me out for my horrible, sneaky, developer ways. Ostensibly, I had found a solution for my rampant log growth problem. Unfortunately, I had cured the symptom and not [...]
Let’s get this out of the way: I think triggers are cool. I also think triggers have their place, they just need to be used with care. One reason for this is that triggers are synchronous. That is – trigger actions will block a command from returning to the client until the the trigger’s actions [...]
SQL Saturday 42 has been and gone. I don’t have a ton to say, but I wanted to try to post my thoughts on the event before they were completely gone from my mind.
The people who put this event on – Dave Schutz, Stuart Johnson, Marc Kuyper, Jim Stoltz, and John Jakubowski – deserve a [...]