In a previous post I talked about becoming an active reader by taking part in and examining the communication between author and audience. Today I’m going to explore it.
Topic
William Zinsser said it best when he said “think small”. While he was talking about writing a memoir, thinking small applies to anything that you write about. [...]
Tom LaRock’s recent post – SQL University – Creative Writing Week – got me thinking about the act of writing. Although interesting, his post sparked two thoughts in my head – about reading and inspiration.
Reading
I love reading. There have been years when I’ve read over 100 books. Admittedly, I was required to read about 60 [...]
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 [...]
SQL Server
Kendal Van Dyke: Delegation: What It Is And How To Set It Up – The title says it all, folks.
wmarow’s disk & disk array calculator – Storage calculator. This wouldn't be terribly fascinating, except I know the performance characteristics of our I/O subsystem and when I plug in the variables, this is pretty close [...]
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 [...]