So I know it’s been a while since I last posted on this blog, but I promise I haven’t been totally slacking off. In fact, I’m proud to announce that I am now an officially published author (I do like the sound of that. Author). That’s right, 14 other first-time authors and I, with tons […]
Last week I was fortunate enough to attend SQLSkills IE1 class in Tampa. Fortunate to have an employer willing to send me to that kind of training, but also because Tampa in February is way better than Cleveland in February. Not that I really got to enjoy the sunshine and warmth much, because let me tell […]
Last month I mentioned that I’d like to start including Oracle stuff on this blog. I’m getting back into that world again as part of the new job, and this blog has always been, first and foremost, a way for me to document and share what I’m learning. Now I realize that a lot of […]
Pop quiz! It’s time to true-up with Microsoft, what are your current license counts? Operations needs to schedule maintenance on ServerY, what applications will be impacted? A developer wants to change the password for a certain login, what linked servers will be affected? Are there any databases that haven’t been backed up in a week […]
How fitting that I should close out the A to Z series while I close out the year. We’ve finally arrived at letter Z and that stands for the CPU-Z utility. Yes, technically that isn’t a part of SQL Server, but if you hadn’t already noticed by Monday’s ‘Y’ post, it’s slim pickins’ at this […]
