I’m sure you’ve noticed by now my job posting blogs have taken over. They were supposed to fill in on Tuesdays and Thursdays while I was supposed to continue blogging on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. That hasn’t worked out. Late last year I began building Hive Mind Consulting. That’s taken up a lot of time!…
Category: Personal
Lessons Learned
I recently had a epic failure on my workstation. It was bad. My machine simply stopped working, and when I rebooted everything looked fine, until I saw it blue screen during boot. So here I go with lessons learned during a critical failure. RAID 1 is great …so long as your controller can still function…
Some Blogging Changes
You may have noticed there are fewer posts on here than there have been in several months. Well, I’ve been sitting on some news. I’m working with several new sites to publish articles. I’ve made the decision to make this site a central hub. I’ll link out to all my articles as they become live…
2011 Resolutions Checkup
Earlier this morning Tom LaRock (@SQLRockstar) reminded us all the year was half over. He also suggested we take a look at our new year’s resolutions. So I decided to give it a go and see how I had been progressing this year. I had broken down my goals for the year into several sections,…
Another Guest Blog
I’ve got another post up at WMW.com.br! This time I’m taking on CXPACKET waits and parallel queries. I also go into why setting MAXDOP to 1 isn’t the solution. You have to dig deeper and find the root cause of those CXPACKETs. We’ll resume here Friday with another career development piece. Until then, if…
Happy Memorial Day
Three day weekends are great, aren’t they? Extra time away from the office to unwind and spend with your friends and family grilling up a storm. I know I’m ready to get the charcoal going and grill up something awesome! During this long weekend, take a moment to remember the actual reason we are all…
New Blog Entry @ OurBodyTransformations.com
I just wanted to drop a line letting you know my blog entry for today I over at http://ourbodytransformations.com. The inspirational Jen McCown convinced me to join a new weekly blog party #getHawt. Check out her call to action blog post here. And then check out mine here. Maybe this will become your call to…
Scotland 2011-Day Four
Day five in Scotland started very early. It also started with a traditional Scottish breakfast. For those who haven’t experienced this, here’s what was on the menu: haggis, black pudding, baked beans, cooked tomatoes, sautéed mushrooms, cooked bacon (closer to what I know as country ham), eggs, fruit, cheeses, cereal, etc. Yeah, that’s right, haggis…
Scotland 2011-Day Three
We got up early on our third day in Scotland. We had planned on taking a pretty long route to get from Edinburgh to Inverness. We wanted to take in Stirling Castle, Stirling Bridge, the Wallace Monument, Doune Castle, Loch Ness, and Urqhart Castle before turning in for the night. It was going to be…
Scotland 2011-Day Two
This is the slideshow from day two in Edinburgh, Scotland. We got up early by Eastern Standard Time, but it wasn’t too early by local standards. After a light breakfast, we hopped a double-decker buss to make our way to the Royal Mile and the sites in the old city. The bus took us by…