John Scalzi (blog, Twitter) – science fiction writer, Hugo award winner, philosopher, and blogger extraordinaire – has an adage that I wish to formally declare a law, in my power as a rather less prolific blogger and a fellow human being. Scalzi’s Law goes like this: The failure mode of clever is “asshole.” The linked blog says, […]
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What a DBA wants for Christmas
In the first few years of ITBookworm.com, we made sure to make up holiday lists of the most awesome gadgets and software that we’d reviewed that year. In recent years, we’ve focused more and more on MidnightDBA, and now on MidnightSQL consulting, leaving us a lot less time for reviewing and listing. But I really […]
Be a Brilliant DBA
John Sanson (b|t) recently asked a bunch of us, “If you could give a DBA just one piece of advice, what would it be?” This post is my answer! This, and other articles like it, is available as a downloadable FREE e-book – DBA Jumpstart – at http://www.johnsansom.com/dba-jumpstart/ Grab your copy, and pass along the URL! “If you could […]