It’s About the Journey, Not the Exam
Achieving a certification is less about the actual accomplishment, and how you get there. Read some of Andy Warren's thoughts.
2013-12-23
136 reads
Andy Warren
Mo-SQL
If you’re involved in the database world it’s hard to have missed the rise of the “no-sql” database products, designed to – depending on your view or the product I suppose – make databases simpler, break out of the transaction database paradigm, scale out across hundreds of machines, make it easy to change the db design (or not require one). I think some of the problems no-sql tries to solve are real, others reflect a lack of awareness/training/tools on how and why relational databases could not just solve the problem, but solve it better.
2013-04-01
3,528 reads
Disaster In The Real World - #2
Back in April Steve Jones wrote up a disaster at work. Andy had one this week and wrote up the story too. Copy cat! Pretty soon everyone will be having a disaster and writing a story about it! Give these guys credit for letting you see what happens when it ALL goes bad. Disaster recovery is hard to sell and hard to do, reading the article might give you an idea that will save you some time and/or data one day.
2012-12-14 (first published: 2002-07-31)
10,628 reads
Corporate Culture
One of the things I enjoy about work is seeing the various cultures that evolve. Some companies are rigid, some...
2011-02-18
1,369 reads
SQLRally Call for Speakers Closes December 15, 2010
The call for speakers is open through December 15, 2010, and I hope many of you will take the chance...
2010-12-09
1,187 reads
How Do You Drive Your DBA Mad?
I’ve written about a few ‘worst practices’ over the years to call attention to some things that are bad (or...
2010-03-03
3,284 reads
Find Efficiencies or Add Horsepower?
In our world sometimes it’s worth the time and effort for in depth tuning to get the machine to run...
2010-02-10
794 reads
Andy on Twitter
Just prior to the 2009 PASS Summit I posted about giving Twitter a try, and thought I’d report back on...
2010-01-28
681 reads
Goals for 2010
Posting goals online is great as long as you meet your goals, can be something less than great if you...
2010-01-12
800 reads
Holidays and Parties, Gift, Expectations, and Wishes
Most companies do something at the holidays, although it seems to be less with each year, and certainly this holiday...
2009-12-18
1,484 reads
Blogs
Redgate Summit Comes to the Windy City
By Steve Jones
I love Chicago. I went to visit three times in 2023: a Redgate event,...
Non-Functional Requirements
By Brian Kelley
I have found that non-functional requirements (NFRs) can be hard to define for a...
Techorama 2024 – Slides
You can find the slidedeck for my Techorama session “Microsoft Fabric for Dummies” on...
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Finding Marks
I have marked a few transactions in my code. How can I find out which marks were stored in a transaction log?
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