Tuning

Had an interesting debate with Andy Warren on the tuning editorial today. I'm not sure we agree completely, but it's...

What does @@total_write in SQL Server 2005?

Studio B

Or maybe C. I think the outside shooting shouldn't really count since that's "on location."

Someone asked me about the podcasts...

Unstructured Data

I remember when Windows 3.1 started to gain widespread deployment in businesses. With all it's WYSIWYG features and multiple applications running at the same time, many people felt we'd get to a paperless office. Over a decade later I rarely see an office that doesn't have a copy machine and at least one printer. We've gotten better at shuffling bits, but we haven't gotten rid of paper.

The Scary DBA

A look at some tricks and treats for DBAs.

When you implement a group of Federated Database...

October Energy Update

A recap of the world of energy from the previous two months. Steve looks at solar, wind, nuclear, and more.

Mining or Profiling

The more data you have, the better you should be able to predict something. Or at least that's one of the things that I learned while studying economics. If we could actually gather enough data about someone or some system, we could determine what the most likely outputs of the system will be. In the […]

You want to implement a fast parse of...

What's Fair

If you read my recent editorial called Get Some Help, you realize that I didn't get any World Series tickets from the sale on the Colorado Rockie's web site. Not to berate the subject, but some friends and I had an interesting debate on how the situation was handled and what could be done differently.