Salary Averages

I saw this posted on Twitter, yet another reason to have a variety of people you follow. Some very interesting...

December Question: What does it mean to be a Proactive DBA?

One of the things I promote in all my presentations is the importance of being a proactive DBA. Unfortunately, the...

SQL Craft Fair

Have you ever been “dragged” to a long weekend afternoon at a craft fair? Did it look something like this?

This...

Processing a Measure Groups Index Using SSMS

As I had mentioned in a previous blog (Creating and processing an Analysis Services partition), instead of processing an entire...

iPad Update

I updated the iPad tonight to iOS 4.2. I had no particular reason to upgrade, but I saw a few...

LiveWriter 2011

I recently upgraded to LiveWriter 2011 while upgrading to the final version of LiveMesh. After the upgrade I noted the...

RTFM365

Physicians have primum non nocere – a Latin phrase that means “First, do no harm”. (Thank you, WikiPedia.)  I think for...

When Were The Statistics In SQL Server Last Updated?

When SQL Server receives a new query, the Query Optimizer undertakes the task of identifying a good plan to resolve the...

The Development DBA Role

The Development DBA role, though not as common as the more prominent DBA and Database Developer roles in the database...

Semi-Crippled

When it rains it pours.
Last week my Nano died. It won’t hold a charge, or at least it won’t...