Fourth of July Read the Declaration of Independence and then it’s time for fireworks and grilling, maybe some apple pie too!  Read More... By Andy Warren in It Depends | 07-03-2009 9:54 AM | Categories: Filed under: Patriotism Rating: (not yet rated) |  Discuss | 234 Reads | no comments

Book Review: Rolling Thunder Rolling Thunder ($7.99 @ Amazon) by John Varley is the third book in the series. I previously reviewed Red Thunder and Red Lightening, having really enjoyed them both. In this third book the prime character is now the 3rd generation (or 4th depending...  Read More... By Andy Warren in It Depends | 07-03-2009 1:23 AM | Categories: Filed under: books Rating: (not yet rated) |  Discuss | 293 Reads | no comments

HP Mini Netbook – Day 2 I arrived in Richmond, VA this morning earlier than expected. I was meeting a few people and things were pushed back, so I had the chance to go by Best Buy and find a USB->VGA adapter. Apparently they don’t have the HP VGA cable, so I got this adapter...  Read More... By Steve Jones in SQL Musings | 07-02-2009 10:52 AM | Categories: Filed under: netbooks, computers Rating: (not yet rated) |  Discuss | 200 Reads | 4 comment(s)

Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and SSC Steve Jones sent me a link to a presentation Joel Spolsky did at Google about Stack Overflow (SO) and it’s worth watching. It’s not a community – well, not a traditional one anyway – the goal is to provide answers to questions and beyond that, to make...  Read More... By Andy Warren in It Depends | 07-02-2009 1:26 AM | Categories: Filed under: Wiki, Interesting Ideas Rating: (not yet rated) |  Discuss | 445 Reads | 5 comment(s)

Transaction Rollbacks with Identity Values Have you ever noticed unexpected gaps in sequences in IDENTITY columns? Even though you’ve got transactions set up for your inserts and a no-deletion policy , you find that there are missing values in what should be an unbroken sequence of numbers. The...  Read More... By Tim Mitchell in Tim Mitchell | 07-01-2009 11:09 PM | Categories: Filed under: T-SQL, SQL Server Rating: (not yet rated) |  Discuss | 199 Reads | no comments

HP Netbook 1030NR Setup Unpacking the netbook was pretty simple. Open it, grab the large one page poster, and then the netbook. There were basically 3 steps. I'd completed one by removing the netbook. Step two was to snap in the battery, and then step 3 was to connect power...  Read More... By Steve Jones in SQL Musings | 07-01-2009 8:03 PM | Categories: Filed under: netbooks, computers Rating: (not yet rated) |  Discuss | 158 Reads | no comments

How to Become an Exceptional DBA, 2nd Edition, Now Available Free About a year ago, the first edition of my book, How to Become an Exceptional DBA , was published. It was short, about 85 pages, and was written for people who were interested in becoming DBAs, and for current DBAs who wanted to become better DBAs. The...  Read More... By Brad M. McGehee in Aloha DBA | 07-01-2009 12:28 PM | Categories: Filed under: Career, DBA Career, Exceptional DBA, Books Rating: (not yet rated) |  Discuss | 435 Reads | 1 comment(s)

HP Netbook Mini 1030NR It was not what I expected. When I was leaving for a run this morning, I decided to apply an update to Vista and let it reboot, thinking I'd defragment the drive when I returned. It was acting funny and running slow, so this seemed like a good idea...  Read More... By Steve Jones in SQL Musings | 07-01-2009 1:40 PM | Categories: Filed under: notebook, netbooks, computers Rating: (not yet rated) |  Discuss | 190 Reads | 2 comment(s)

Connector Editorial for July 1, 2009 I currently write the editorial for the PASS Connector which is published every two weeks as part of my role on the Board of Directors. I'm cross posting those editorials here as well as to the main PASS blog . Just as the list issue of the Connector...  Read More... By Andy Warren in It Depends | 07-01-2009 1:04 AM | Categories: Filed under: PASS Rating: (not yet rated) |  Discuss | 511 Reads | no comments

Querying the Procedural Cache on Canada Day (July 1st) The goal of this post is to understand the procedure cache and execution plans to ensure we use fewer resources and that queries run better. Better means higher throughput, more concurrency and fewer resources – as described by MVP Joe Webb during SQLTeach...  Read More... By Hugo Shebbeare in The Database Hive for SQL Server DBAs | 06-30-2009 4:22 PM | Categories: Filed under: recent actual Execution plans, Querying Procedural Cache Rating: (not yet rated) |  Discuss | 154 Reads | no comments

SSIS - Creating a Deployment Manifest Using a Deployment Manifest in SSIS allows you to deploy a set of packages to a target location using a wizard for installing your packages. The benefit to using it is the nice user interface that a wizard provides. The disadvantage of using it is it...  Read More... By knight_devin@hotmail.com in Devin Knight | 06-30-2009 2:49 PM | Categories: Filed under: SSIS, Business Intelligence Rating: (not yet rated) |  Discuss | 230 Reads | no comments

Unwired for Days Today is the first day that I've really had any significant time on the computer over vacation. That probably sounds like it should be the rule, and it does tend to be, but this is the first time in a long time that I've let go of SQLServerCentral...  Read More... By Steve Jones in SQL Musings | 06-30-2009 7:09 AM | Categories: Filed under: writing, vacation, work Rating: (not yet rated) |  Discuss | 186 Reads | no comments

Tracking My Goals – Half the Year I made a series of resolutions in January related to SQLServerCentral. These are things that I wanted to accomplish this year, things to work on, and it’s time to check how I am doing for through the second quarter. I’ve copied the list below and included...  Read More... By Steve Jones in SQL Musings | 06-30-2009 5:02 AM | Categories: Filed under: SQLServerCentral.com, goals Rating: (not yet rated) |  Discuss | 184 Reads | no comments

Featured Blog: Jeremiah Peschka I met Jeremiah at the PASS Summit last year and since then I’ve looked in on his blog from time to time. He has an interesting mix of content covering his local PASS chapter, SQL, and one of my favorites, his Links of the Week where he aggregates good...  Read More... By Andy Warren in It Depends | 06-30-2009 1:42 AM | Categories: Filed under: Blog Recommendations Rating: (not yet rated) |  Discuss | 633 Reads | no comments

SQL Saturday #17 - Abstract Submitted I was asked to attend SQLSaturday #17 in Baton Rouge, LA. Despite my lack of desire to travel, I've never been to Louisiana (just driven across), the timing is good, and so I submitted an abstract to speak. The organizers had asked Red Gate to send...  Read More... By Steve Jones in SQL Musings | 06-29-2009 5:05 AM | Categories: Filed under: SQLSaturday, speaking Rating: |  Discuss | 216 Reads | 1 comment(s)

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