The Week in Awesome – 2014 CU1, Jenga fixed, Bezo’s Law

awesomeThis week in awesome:

SQL Server 2014 Cumulative Update 1 is now available. Among the more personally amusing errors fixed is: “FIX: An access violation occurs when you try to use datepart (weekday) in a natively compiled stored procedure in SQL Server 2014”.

From @reverendanthony: “Holy shit, they fixed Jenga in the simplest way imaginable. We are all idiots for not thinking of this sooner.” He’s right, and this is kind of awesome.

Steve Jones @way0utwest wants to open Source the MCM. He’d like Microsoft Learning to “release the questions and scenarios to the world as an open source project,” to benefit humanity. I think it’s a great idea, actually, but somewhat unlikely.

Thanks, @sqlnikon, for this:  “This is by far the best training course because of the real-work examples @pluralsight authored by @MidnightDBA http://pluralsight.com/courses/sql-2012-database-administration-pt1 …

Rule 1: Back up your databases. Rule 2: Look at the damn error log. #SQLlaw
-Me

Via @datachick: Bezo’s Law.  “Named for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, I define it as the observation that, over the history of cloud, a unit of computing power price is reduced by 50 percent approximately every three years.” In other words, the cloud is making it cheaper to do more.

Forbes: How Sleep Deprivation Drives The High Failure Rates of Tech Startups (and, I suppose, a great many other things.)  Best quote: “The irony of this increase in working hours is that it usually comes in service of extraordinarily bad ideas, the majority of which end in failure.”

Via @smencimerNet neutrality finally dies at ripe old age of 45. “ISPs won’t be allowed to deliberately slow down traffic from specific sites, but that’s about all that’s left of net neutrality. Once you’ve approved the notion of two-tier service, it hardly matters whether you’re speeding up some of the sites or slowing down others.” Well, goody freaking gumdrops. 🙁

Happy days,
Jen
http://www.MidnightDBA.com/Jen