March 2007 - Posts

• Kill or Be Shamed

  Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:43 PM | 6 Comments
  
  

  Every tidbit of knowledge gleaned over years of working with a product comes at a price and that price is sometimes shame at not having known such slacious info beforehand. So it is with shame I admit that today I learned something I suspect I should Read More by Rodney | 6 Comments | Comment on this post

• Mass Produced Beer and SQL

  Posted Monday, March 26, 2007 9:28 PM | 2 Comments
  
  

  I was on vacation last week. Ok, you may call it Holiday...but with four kids in tow to Orlando, FL to spend as yet un-tallied sums of cash, it is hard to call it relaxing.  The trip did afford me the ability to see the convention center in Read More by Rodney | 2 Comments | Comment on this post

• Once Upon a Day to Day Basis

  Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 4:30 PM | 1 Comments
  
  

  This past weekend, after spending an unusually lengthy amount of time coding (as a DBA, I have trained myself to avoid extensive coding at all times) I noticed my brain had begun to juxtapose the iterative loops from the code I was working on to Read More by Rodney | 1 Comments | Comment on this post

• Pre Occupied or Post Orbital

  Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 9:39 PM | 0 Comments
  
  

  I have professed or confessed or prefessed or postfessed previously that I would inscibe the ways I misuse or abuse the trust of the torch beaers of T-SQL best practices by myself practicing the black arts of inefficiency.  Even more, I have stated Read More by Rodney | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• SQL Server Secret Agent Holds its Secret as to Why It Won't Start

  Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:22 PM | 11 Comments
  
  

  SQL Server Agent and SQL Mail for SQL 2000 Server requires a MAPI client (out of the box) to begin with -- a simple, yet unavoidable fact. MAPI, for those who like to time travel is the Messaging Application Programming Interface. To send notifications Read More by Rodney | 11 Comments | Comment on this post