Category: sqlserverpedia-syndication

Another reason that T-SQL beats the GUI

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date November 14, 2011
Categories In sql server, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, Tips, TSQL
4 Comments on Another reason that T-SQL beats the GUI

In IT, we have a few very solid and universal principles that no one ever argues with. The first of these is Cover Your Ass (CYA). CYA is so universal and popular because things go wrong, blame gets thrown, and DBAs find themselves under a metaphorical bus. Nobody likes the underside of that bus. It’s […]

Things I Favorited on Twitter (a weekly wrapup, of sorts)

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date November 4, 2011
Categories In News-ish, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC

Each Friday on DBAs@Midnight (my live weekly webshow, 11pm CST at webshow.MidnightDBA.com!) I don’t feel like I have enough time for my Twitter Favorites List segment. This week I realized…hey! I have a blog! So here’s your weekly Tweet-wrapup. SQL and Tech blogs @RachelAppel: Blogged: Stats, data, and answers, as to why there are so […]

SQL Tribal Knowledge

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date November 1, 2011
Categories In Community, News-ish, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC
11 Comments on SQL Tribal Knowledge

Update 12/3/2011: The abstract submission window is now closed. Thanks, and watch this blog for updates! Calling all unpublished* SQL Server folk! I’m now accepting abstracts for a new project we’re putting together – a community-written book of tribal SQL Server knowledge. Theme The general theme I’m proposing is “write about the thing that a […]