Common Checks

This Friday Steve Jones wants to know what types of things are you checking for on your instances. What items can cause you issues if you don't proactively monitor for them.

Too Much Choice

More information and choice are generally good things, but there can be problems. Steve Jones notes that we can't let freedom paralyze us.

Powershell in a Month Day 12 – A Practical Interlude

This is part of my Powershell Challenge, to learn more about PowerShell (PoSh) using the Learn Windows Powershell 3 in a Month...

Software in 2014

What's the state of software in 2014. After reading Tim Bray's analysis, Steve Jones presents his.

Using multiple CTEs in one query

This is a fairly simple thing to do, but I had to look it up the other day and thought...

Replication

Uncontrolled Code

Excel is used quite often to build software, or at least, it's worksheets and formulas simulate software. Steve Jones notes there are lots of problems with this practice.

Counting the Existing, and Missing, Rows

I saw this as a problem recently from someone and thought it would make a good post. As I was...

Powershell in a Month Day 11 – Filtering

This is part of my Powershell Challenge, to learn more about PowerShell (PoSh) using the Learn Windows Powershell 3 in a Month...

Cleveland Rocks! (and does SQL Server)

My first flight of 2014 will be to Cleveland to run a SQL in the City seminar and then speak...