December 2, 2011
by Matt
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I’m a big fan of virtualization. Ever since I first saw Brent Ozar present his Virtualization and SAN Basics for DBAs, I’ve been hooked. It’s fascinating that we can take a bunch of hardware (admittedly, another love of mine), abstract … Continue reading
October 3, 2011
by Matt
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“Development Services can have that done in a week.” Thomas LaRock asked for stories about the worst way we’ve been asked for help. “Development Services will handle that.” The Development Services team consisted of two members, my supervisor and me. … Continue reading
September 13, 2011
by Matt
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This month’s T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by Robert Pearl, is all about Data Presentation. At first I wasn’t sure what to write about, but then I had a first hand experience in poor design that gave me the inspiration for today’s … Continue reading
August 10, 2011
by Matt
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Adam Mechanic hit it on the head: we must do better in our coding practices. We should follow Dairy Queen in not stopping at good enough. In today’s T-SQL Wednesday, I’m going to lay bare a bit of code that … Continue reading
August 1, 2011
by Matt
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Tom’s topic for the month of August is the worst code you’ve ever seen. I’ve got a doosey. Back in January we were upgrading our donor database to a newer version as our vendor was about to stop support for … Continue reading