Monthly Archives: July 2012

Back Across the Pond

Posted on July 9, 2012 by way0utwest

This coming weekend is SQL in the City – London 2012. Friday, July 13, and Saturday, July 14, I’ll be at One Wimpole Street in London. This is the Royal Society of Medicine, a fantastic venue for events near Oxford … Continue reading →

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The DBA Tax

Posted on July 9, 2012 by way0utwest

When I started working with a small company in Denver over a decade ago, SQL Server 7 had just been released. One of the marketing messages for the product was that it was self-tuning and didn’t need a DBA. More … Continue reading →

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Starting to Program

Posted on July 6, 2012 by way0utwest

As DBAs, I think we need to learn to program better for the future. It doesn’t matter whether you are looking to manage clusters with Powershell or add your own SQL CLR routines to your instance, it pays to learn … Continue reading →

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The Standing Desk – In the Light

Posted on July 5, 2012 by way0utwest

It’s been almost a month since I started the Standing Desk experiment. My first setup was down in the basement, since that was the desk that fit my monitor stand. In the middle I had a week of vacation, where … Continue reading →

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