That’s just one of about a hundred great lines from episode 1 of Farmed and Dangerous. A company with the initials of IFIB. The scene where the team is talking about the boss is good (listen for the remark about ticks). It’s free with a couple minutes of commercials embedded. Beyond the humor it’s a […]
Read more "Why Am I Here? You’re On Retainer"This may not be the exact model, but I bought 2 First Alert detectors at Costco for $23. Not a lot to installing any smoke detector, most have two screws that go into the ceiling and a cover that pops off so you can replace the 9v battery. Sounds easy enough, but getting the screws […]
Read more "A Nicely Made Smoke Detector"I’ll be attending the Orlando Code Camp this weekend. I know it says “code”, but there is a SQL Server track. Jason Carter will be speaking, as will Kendal Van Dyke, Max Trinidad, Richie Rump, Robert Biddle, and myself. Thirteen tracks of learning! Even if you can’t stay all day I hope you’ll come over […]
Read more "Reminder: Orlando Code Camp Is This Weekend (March 22, 2014) and It’s Not Just For Developers!"You may have seen these minuteKey boxes at your local home supply store (Lowes has it near me) that let you make your own copies of common key types: I tried it out over the weekend. Quick, painless, and if anything not very exciting to watch. I didn’t time it, but maybe 4 […]
Read more "A Minute About Minute Key"Almost time for another meeting! This month Rodney Landrum is presenting Data Analytics and the DBA – Using PowerView to Uncover Interesting Facts About Your SQL Servers: DBAs do not always have time to work with some of the amazing visual data tools that are becoming common place now for analysts. In this presentation I […]
Read more "Rodney Landrum Presenting at oPASS on March 20, 2014"I wrote Write The Perfect Question (Of The Day) last week and yesterday dropped a note here about my latest question, Schema Renaming Fun. I’ve got a couple more in the pipeline (The Unusable User, and Alas Poor Snapshot, I Knew Him Well). Lessons learned/thought of so far: Make the case consistent on the queries, […]
Read more "Some Notes On Writing A Question Of The Day"That’s the first thing I heard when I answered the phone recently. I was working on an change I needed to make, missed a call, called back (thinking it might be related to the change) and no one answered, then they called back again. It went something like this: Me: Hello. Caller: You broke my […]
Read more "You Broke My Tail Light"I’m taking on a new topic today. Titled “ How to capture who did what in your SQL Server databases”, it’s a good overview of some of the techniques that can be used for auditing. Much like disaster recovery options, there is quite an assortment of auditing/logging options in SQL and just picking one (or […]
Read more "Webinar Today at 3pm"I wrote the SQLServerCentral question of the day that is live today called Schema & Renaming Fun. Mildly interesting, but looking back at it a couple weeks after writing it not my favorite – feels a bit convoluted. If you read the comments (after trying to answer the question!), you’ll see two places where I […]
Read more "Schema & Renaming Fun"SQLSaturday returns to Houston this year, this time at San Jacinto College on May 10, 2014. That’s the Saturday just before Teched, so you can make a super week of it. I haven’t decided yet if I’ll attend, it turns out SQLSaturday Jacksonville is on the same day. Jacksonville is closer and has a Ted’s […]
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