The Bit Bucket (Greg Low): IDisposable : Stored Procedures - Time for a real contract? [http://sqlblog.com/blogs/greg_low/archive/2010/01/19/stored-procedures-time-for-a-real-contract.aspx] [sqlblog.com/blogs/greg_low/] Interesting case of watching log file growth during a perf test [http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post.aspx?…
At the Summit this year we announced that the 2010 Summit would be in Seattle again. This will mark the third year in a row in Seattle. We’ve been in Seattle twice in a row before but never three times. After we complete the 2010 Summit in Seattle, half…
I’ve been posting links to interesting blog posts in the SQLTeam.com Newsletter [http://www.sqlteam.com/newsletter.aspx] for over a year now. I going to try posting them here also. Oh what job was it? A procedure to search your jobs for a particular string [http://www.…
Each year at the PASS Summit I carry around a little black notebook that easily fits in my pocket. Any time I come across something I need to fix I write it down. Any time someone makes a good suggestion I write it down. Any ideas or thoughts on future…
(This blog post comes from an email I sent to the Board about this. I left in some of the thoughts around it in addition to just what we’re doing. Plus we’re still working out some details.) This year at the Summit we want to give the community…
Over the last year I’ve watched my usage of Facebook change. A party in my hometown really capped off the change. When I started out on Facebook all my friends were technology people. Facebook hadn’t invaded my hometown yet. I grew up in Baldwin City [http://www.baldwincity.…
I launched the updated Ask SQLTeam almost a week ago and I’ve noticed a few interesting things. First, a big thank you to the people answering questions. As people answer questions and their answers are voted up they get “reputation”. Right now the top 3 users in terms of…
Last week we launched Ask SQLTeam [http://ask.sqlteam.com/] as an alternative to our forums. One of the interesting features of the site is that it uses OpenID as a login mechanism. Google and Yahoo both support OpenID and you can use them to login. What I really wanted…
I stared SQLTeam.com nearly ten years ago. I wanted to build a place where people could learn about SQL Server. In the early days we had something called "Ask SQLTeam". People could submit questions and we'd use those to get ideas for articles. We tried…
I was recently asked if I thought the PASS Summit [http://summit2009.sqlpass.org/] was appropriate for new database administrators. My answer was a resounding YES! But I wanted to add some specific reasons. If I was a new DBA here are the 12 sessions I’d try to attend…