#SQLFAMILY

By Tamera, on November 7th, 2011%

#sqlfamily

It started feeling real on Monday night of #sqlpass week.  It was at a very late dinner with @airbornegeek and my co-workers; we were sitting at The Tap House when all of the sudden (you know at nearly midnight) walked in a large group of my favorite people in the #sqlcommunity.  I walked over to say HI to all these “strangers” I had never met in person, there were hugs and laughs and OMG! Everywhere.  I walked back to our table and said “Guys MY FAMILY is here, we have to go sit with them!” they replied with “we are going to the hotel and to bed”.  I followed . . . → Read More: #SQLFAMILY

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Meme Monday 5/2

By Tamera, on May 2nd, 2011%

“I got 99 problems but a disk ain’t one”

I am not a DBA, and I have only pretended to be one after KLT had moved on to TN.  But I have seen all of these items cause problems for databases and as a customer of these databases I found it to be extremely annoying.

users who don’t care users who have too many rights USERS who have no knowledge of how a DB works or how to write SQL and those who have no idea what could make a query slow A bad data model Forcing size limit on a DB and requiring a DB to fix it.  BAD! . . . → Read More: Meme Monday 5/2

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