I can hear the questions asked in the voices of the characters.  Thank you for the nostalgia!

I agree as well with what you wrote.  Sure, I make most of my...

I went to Amazon's first big AWS conference with a client. We attended a session included a discussion on Netflix's chaos monkey. My client was so impressed that...

I have been a DBA for 15 years. Whenever I have the control, I create synthetic keys using identities. I have taken over many projects where the developers...

An interesting take on an old problem.

I personally turn profiler on for a while, capturing "statement completed" events for the database in question. I use a filter of reads...

You can use the optional "with tableresults" in the DBCC command.

Here is an example:

create table [#waitstats]

(

[wait type] varchar(80) not null,

[requests] bigint not null,

[wait time] numeric(20, 5) not null,

[signal wait time]...

I worked at a company that prided itself in being the world leader in "communications interception" technology (i.e. wire taps++)

They routinely configured systems to backup the database to the local...

Uhh....did I travel back in time or something? I have been using Management studio for over a year....

Why was this article sent out as part of the daily update?

"In case you've been completely focused on work and reading this nonsense as a way of taking a break or combating insomnia..."

Steve, I laughed out loud at that one, almost...

Steve,

I disagree with the statement "great developers never apply for jobs".

As an DBA that works primarily in government on short term contracts, I am constantly sending my resumes out. ...

Interesting article, interesting question.

However there is an ENORMOUSLY HUGE gap between "compatible" and "supposed to be compatible".

Even if a product is an exact clone of another, bug fixes in the...

Two years ago I was at a conference in Orlando Florida, listening to a very prominent member of the SQL Server engineering team speak (I don't want to say who,...

What a collosal waste of time. Dont you people have jobs or something?