I have had the opportunity lately to tap into “Marketing” something to get some traction on a Vote for Me scenario.  It made me wonder about Networking and what it really is and what I would use it for.  There are many spammers and others out there who would just send anything and everything out to the masses in the name of ...

When I am asked how I got to where I am in my career, or how to make the transition to being a DBA, I usually have to think about my answer before I respond.  I realize that most people won’t be able to follow the same path that I took to get where I am.  This is not to say that I am special, or I did something extraordinary to get where ...

This is somewhat of a continuation post to my previous blog post, “Some thoughts on Interviweing…”.  Now that you survived the interview process, what do you do?  This is a common area of discomfort for people interviewing for  any kind of job, not just positions dealing with SQL Server.  In this post I’d like to focus on a ...

Less than 24 hours ago I blogged about a veritable nightmare I had with CHECKDB and the resulting findings that it wasn’t actually a corruption problem but instead a new issue in a third party tool that we use on our production servers.  This little problem actually answered a long standing question that was posed to me by Andy ...