SQLSaturday 57 In Houston, Here I Come!
Another year and staring it off right! I’ll be speaking at SQLSaturday in Houston, TX on the fundamentals of storage...
2011-01-26
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Wesley Brown
- Interests: Collecting old computers
- Skills: I talk a lot.
#SQLRally is coming, Go vote!
We are in the final stages of selecting the speakers for the SQLRally May 11th through the 13th in sunny...
2011-01-25
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A New Year, Time To Get My Learn On!
My friend, and newly minted MVP, Jen McCown (blog|twitter) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month. I normally don’t do the...
2011-01-11
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SQLMeetings.com Is Live!
You heard right, I’ve finished with the 1.0 release. It isn’t pretty but it works. If you need a primer...
2010-12-29
1,563 reads
Giving Back, SQLMeetings.com Is Going Live Soon
I’ve been pretty quite since the PASS Summit and with good reason. Every year we have a chapter leader meeting....
2010-12-10
618 reads
Giving Back, SQLMeetings.com Is Going Live Soon
I’ve been pretty quite since the PASS Summit and with good reason. Every year we have a chapter leader meeting....
2010-12-07
872 reads
Fusion-io, Flash NAND All You Can Eat
Fusion-io has announced general availability of the new Octal. This card is the largest single flash based device I’ve ever...
2010-11-19
1,014 reads
SATA, SAS or Neither? SSD’s Get A Third Option
I recently wrote about solid state storage and its different form factor. Well, several major manufacturers have realized that solid...
2010-11-08
543 reads
Fusion-io, What It Takes To Be On The Cutting Edge
I recently had the privilege to talk with David Flynn, former CTO, Founder and newly minted CEO about Fusion-io. How...
2010-11-01
1,522 reads
Fundamentals of Storage Systems, Understanding Reliability and Performance
Solid state storage has come on strong in the last year. With that explosion of new products it can be...
2010-10-28
827 reads
Blogs
How AgentDBA Identifies Backup Failures
By Arun Sirpal
Every DBA has a box like this. Sitting untouched for months. Nobody’s proud of...
Tip: Expanding a SQL statement
In all recent versions of the database you can call DBMS_UTILITY.EXPAND_SQL_TEXT to get the...
AI Helps Me with My Sloppiness
By Steve Jones
I type fairly well. Well, I type fast, but I do wear out a...
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Independence Day 2026
In the original Independence Day movie (1996), what type of computer did Jeff Goldblum use to connect to the alien mainframe? Take a guess, don't look it up or ask AI.
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