Archive for October, 2009
Rookie Mistakes: Installing Everything
Prior to my coming to my current company, somebody had a great love of installing all SQL services on every server where SQL was installed.
This is such a pet peeve of mine, and frankly, it’s a rookie mistake. In my environment, almost all of our applications are off-the-shelf apps with minimal customization. Today I was [...]
Congrats to the Winner
As Brent Ozar mentioned in his blog post, the winner of the all-expense paid trip to PASS is Jen McCown, aka @MidnightDBA. I’m really happy for her. Don’t get me wrong, I’m jealous as hell. Jen wanted this as much as I did, perhaps more. She produced a ton of amazing content, and the community is better [...]