The Beta Cycle

I live in Denver. That's in the Mountain time zone, either MDT or MST depending on the time of year,...

The Performance Game

I've posted in the forums fairly often that there's kind of a black art to performance tuning. As with most...

Queueing Theory

There has been tons of work over the last few decades on queueing theory, mainly in regard to operating systems...

Engagement

I got a note from someone at Red Gate about disengagement with the newsletter and site. Actually it was my...

Fewer Seats Make for Better User Group Meetings?

We had a visitor from another group at our recent www.opass.org meeting and it was interesting that one bit of...

Table Partioning Article Posted on SSC

Article is at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/3135.asp. I'll have quite a few more on this subject over the next few months. As I...

Dell Laptops, D-Link routers and Cisco VPN

It's not directly SQL Server, but it does prevent me from working with SQL Server 🙂

So I'm in Virginia this...

User Groups, Geeks, and Puzzles

Last night we had one of bi-monthly meetings of oPASS (Orlando SQL Servers User Group) and we had a pretty...

Am I a Good Customer?

Maybe not. This is a great post and cartoon from David Reed (a friend) mentioning me.

We've had some good arguements...

Professional Development Plans Article on SSC

This was fun to write. It's a subject I'm passionate about and that too few in our field seem to...