April 2010 - Posts

• Can you over-normalize?

  Now, don’t get too excited and grab your pitchforks and torches. Clearly, it is extremely possible to overdo something in the design, but very often normalization takes the rap as being the culprit. In my “Database Design Fundamentals” presentation, one Read More... Posted Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:53 AM by drsql | 16 Comments

• Do DBA’s not desire sleep?

  Or any support people for that matter.  I constantly hear people having to support this, support that, wearing the “beeper”, etc etc.  But these people do seemingly love what they do, because I hear this on “non-essential” communications channels, Read More... Posted Friday, April 23, 2010 10:11 AM by drsql | 1 Comments

• 24 Hours of PASS – Database Design Fundamentals

  Well, I have to admit when I got the invite to speak during this event, I was honored (and still am for that matter). But I have to admit, I hope people don’t come in with any belief that I will be Celebrating SQL Server 2008 R2.  Most of what I Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 07, 2010 1:29 AM by drsql | 0 Comments