Author: Jen McCown

The Office

I’m a big fan of The Office (and I won’t apologize for liking the American series better); I loved Office Space and News Radio. I was even a fan of 9 to 5 as a kid. They’re all classic comedy, sure – but you knew this was coming – there’s an awful lot of truth to […]

Free Stuff (Fri?)Day!

Douglas Adams once wrote, “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”  I must add that Fridays are like a long lunch, and must be very much an illusion.  Therefore, today is Free Stuff Day!  (I shall then go on to prove that black is white, and get myself killed at the next zebra crossing.) Free […]

Review: Inside MS SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying

It’s day two of Banned Book Week / the MidnightDBA book review party, and we’re digging into one HEAVY SQL tome: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying, by Itzik Ben-Gan, with Lubor Kollar, Dejan Sarka, Steve Kass, and Kalen Delaney. I’m a big fan of Itzik Ben-Gan’s 2005 book of the same name, so I’ve been waiting for this updated […]