Fundamentals of Storage Systems – RAID, An Introduction

In previous articles, we have covered the system bus, host bus adapters, and disk drives. Now we will move up...

Getting the Most Out of SQL Server Profiler Using Templates

In case you haven’t discovered this for yourself, SQL Server Profiler is one of the most powerful tools that come...

Getting Things Done: The Zone

Cross-Posted from A Goal-Keeping DBA blog:
I'm reading Getting Things Done because of Brent Ozar's excellent blog post, How I Use...

Good Programmer = Lazy & Dumb?

Alternative title for programmers using C-derivatives and Java:

Good Programmer == Lazy & Dumb?
I read this blog post, Why Good Programmers Are...

LinkedIn Update and LinkedIn Vanity URL’s

Was just doing my more or less weekly update on LinkedIn and saw that – finally – just hit 500 connections. Growth...

List of 50 Interesting Web Sites from Time Magazine

Ran across the Time Top 50 web site list and thought I’d share. I’m fond of lists, especially about web...

MDX Utility Belt of Calculations Part 4

This is part four in the series of blog posts that will help in building a library of calculations you...

Microsoft Student Career Portal

Microsoft Learning has put up a new Microsoft Student Career Portal that gives advice and links to resources on how...

PCI Encryption

It surprises me how often I see people posting questions about what type of encryption to implement for credit card...

Traveling and Airtran

I am a pretty frequent traveler, as you would imagine. Running a consulting company, and being on it's principals assets...