WIT and SQLCruise
This year SQLCruise was balanced 50/50 men and women. This was a surprising ratio and we had a special WIT (Women in Technology) session to discuss it. Next year, there is only one woman signed up for the first Miami cruise (so far) and two women for the Alaska cruise. Both of the women signed [...]
SQL Cruise, I Still Miss You!
And while it pains me to have to wait, I am over joyed and extremely excited that the next two SQL Cruises have been announced! Check out the official website for more details. Unfortunately, by the time I am writing this, the Alaska SQL Cruise has already sold out. After only one day, all of [...]
Is there a heartbeat?
Dammit Jim, I’m a DBA not a doctor! On our servers we have heartbeats in our SQL Agent Jobs. A heartbeat is a start and end step that we put into each of our jobs. If you do use it, do you use the same terminology or do you have a different word for it? [...]
Where Did My Blah Go?
A week or so ago I was helping a coworker. He had just upgraded to SQL2K8 R2 and needed to get into the options for LogShipping. They weren’t there. A quick Bing search showed the options were accessible exactly as we thought but we still couldn’t find them. We checked all of the SQL2K8 R2 [...]