As someone who works in IT, I get to see a lot of different technologies. Often I talk about technology as a life changing tool, such as the ability...
Earlier in the week I wrote about the adoption of SQL Server 2008. One of the biggest reasons that often limits the adoption of a Microsoft product...
In the enterprise, Windows Vista is yet to gain a foothold. Many customers are reluctant to install Vista for various reasons and as a result they...
A conversation that I have with a lot of people is around the reasons to upgrade from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008. The problem is that a lot...
If you were to look at the adoption curve, you would see that I am sitting way out on the left, meaning that I am often prepared to put up with buggy...
Something that I am a big advocate of is ongoing professional development. Like many people who are in the IT profession, I went to university in...
One of the things I enjoy about travel is the ability to experience things that you do not see in your day-to-day environment, for example, waking up...
I have written a few times about what DBAs do and what their job role is. I actually think that people not knowing what DBAs do is a good thing. You...
I have to admit that I am partial to watching the occasional episode of the British chef Nigella Lawson. One of the first things my wife had...
It's Friday. For many of us this means a long lunch and then finishing early to head to the nearest drinking establishment. In Australia finishing up...
Over the last few weeks I have been doing quite a bit of work with MySQL. I have worked almost predominately with SQL Server since I started as a DBA...
If we think about the role of a Database Administrator many of the tasks that we are responsible for can seam mundane and almost repetitive. The...
Is it just that I am getting older, or is the world becoming lazier and lazier? We now have technology that can reduce the effort required to do many...
SQL is a programming language that has been standardised by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and also the International Organization...
This afternoon I at sat a Microsoft exam so I decided to block out my calendar for the entire afternoon. I finished my exam early so I decided I...
My wife and I are about to embark on a renovation project on the house we moved into in September last year. At the moment we are making a lot of...
The January version of SQL Server 2008 Books Online has recently been released and is now available for download. Updates to Books Online are now...
Several years ago there was a movie starring Kevin Spacey that was titled Pay It Forward that described a phenomenon of kindness. The basic gist of...
I was catching up on my RSS feeds today and I can across a post on SQL Server Certification Statistics. What I found interesting about this post was...
There are certain jobs in life that are more glamorous then others. If someone asks what you do for a living and you answer fire fighter or pilot...
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