Simple And Amusing Question Of The Day

I was working on a script today to check the range of some values and trying to take the time to handle edge cases, even though I don’t expect them (edge cases!) and ran across something I knew but hadn’t thought about. Good fodder for a question, but not a complicated question, at least if […]

Writing My Next Question Of The Day

I ran into a simple error last week and saved it to convert to a question. It’s another one where if you saw the error, it’s an easy fix. Minus the error it challenges you to visualize and understand how thing work. Overall I spent about an hour on it over the weekend and reviewing […]

Follow Up To A Questionable Trigger

This question of the day didn’t turn out well at all – required too big a leap the way it was written to get to the key answer. Four were easy, one was not. I confused the issue with a less than great trigger – not deliberately, sadly. The lesson – learning it again – […]

SQLServerCentral Editorial: Team Reputation

Maybe too serious a topic for a Friday, I wrote Team Reputation because I like working for good teams – who doesn’t? Most teams are average and that’s ok, but it’s a lot more fun to be part of the big red machine if you get the chance (and have the game).

The Untold Story of SQLHotties.com

Back when SQLSaturday was in the #20’s or so I bought SQLHotties.com, thinking it would be good for an April Fools joke to build a mock ‘adult’ site that catered to/featured people from the SQL community. I was at SQLSaturday #33 in Charlotte not long after that, talking with some friends about work and life […]

PASS Election Season Begins

Saw the announcement in the Connector today that the process of selecting the Nominating Committee (which vets applications for the PASS Board of Directors) will start on May 14 this year. I’m debating whether I will be a candidate for the NomCom. It’s a good place for me to add value, the downside is that […]

A Questionable Trigger–Question Of the Day

A Questionable Trigger is the SQLServerCentral Question of the Day today. It’s my latest and perhaps the hardest. Here is the early score: The comments on it are so so. It’s a tough and tricky question. More on that in a day or two. While you wait, go try it!

Solid State Tapes–Prelaunch News!

Note: Sorry for the vague details on the tech part, you’ll get all of that tomorrow – this is what I was allowed to post today In the world of data it’s always been about speed. SSD’s have become very common on consumer machines and not unusual in corporate datacenters. Fast, reliable, and prices failing […]

Follow Up on The Unusable User–Question Of The Day

I posted about one of my questions of the day called The Unusable User last week and wanted to return to post some final stats and thoughts on how it turned out. First the stats: Overall the comments on the question were good, especially about the style. I’m not sure what the style […]

SQLServerCentral Editorial: The Perfect Environment

I write editorials once or twice a month for SQLServerCentral and have fallen out of the habit of mentioning them here, so trying to resume doing so. Today it’s The Perfect Environment, which is, as you might guess, discussing to what degree you strive for perfection and how far along on the path you are. […]

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