A CIO's Voice....

As you know if you follow this blog, Pearl Knows is the creator of the monitoring software SQLCentric, and offers...

Code Camp - Tampa, FL.

I recently attended Code Camp in Tampa and I want to thank everyone who made a SQL guy feel so...

Code Camp – Tampa, FL.

I recently attended Code Camp in Tampa and I want to thank everyone who made a SQL guy feel so...

Dismissing Warnings in SSAS 2008

When working with Analysis Services, you will often run into the same warnings over and over as you are developing....

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...