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 [...]
It was a typical Saturday afternoon in Blacklick. The day had gone well – I had entertained a number of guests with some of my uproarious tales, a short self-penned one act opera, and a round of polo using burros instead of horses.
After having one of my many servants clean the burro “leavings” from the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]