Musings and Ramblings
A personal and professional look back at 2006...
Today, November 7, 2005, a date which will NOT live in infamy, but hey, it's still kinda cool.
People have just come to expect these days that when they have to enter a date value that there will be some sort of calendar control right there so they can see a view of the month if they need to...
For those who noticed or cared, the CaldwellBlog is back online (new URL) after an extended summer hiatus.
There's just nothing quite like taking a timed test that covers so many areas ... to really get you to question how just how good you think you are.
Do you read software licensing agreements when you install software? Maybe you should...
Announcing my personal blog for non-SQL stuff.
You know you're truly fluent when you can think in a foreign language instead of thinking in your native language and translating.
You DO backup your databases, don't you? And you do test your backups occasionally to make sure they're good, don't you?
“You DO have a separate development environment, don't you?”
Spammers fall on the hierarchy of life forms well below used car salesmen and most contingency-fee personal injury lawyers...
Okay, I have to come clean, and do it as publicly as I did with my mistake...
Somebody's messin' with my Favorites, and I'm not happy about it!
There are some topics that you know are always good for a heated debate: religion, politics, abortion, and the value of the MCDBA (Microsoft Certified DataBase Administrator) certification...
During his keynote talk Wednesday morning, Gordon Mangione (VP SQL Server, Microsoft) said to his assistant who was about to demonstrate a new feature in Yukon, “If you login as SA, Blank Password, you're fired.” Everyone laughed and it became the joke of the day. But think about it for a moment...
Here's yet another good reason to come to the PASS Community Summit in Seattle... They will have Hands-on labs using Yukon, the next version of SQL Server.
I was reading this web site with my developer hat on, and thought that I'd actually see something being done in Yukon. You know, a demo of using the software to accomplish something. Silly me, this was not a demo as a developer thinks of it, but rather as the sub-text described it, this was an overview listing (selling) the new features to management.
Here are some musings about what makes a good blogger, from my experiences reading other blogs.
ComputerWorld's 2003 Salary Survey is now available online. The detailed numbers are available after a free registration, but here are a couple of points of interest for the SQL Server community.
It has been several years since I escaped AMV Hell. I have been working in SQL Server, and I'm so happy I got out. AMVs were like some sort of addictive drug that seemed really cool at first but then became an obsession that took over my life and warped my sense of judgment for several years. But thanks to a career-intervention by some friends, I've been clean for the last 5 years, and life is good. My name is Mark, and I am a recovered MV guy.
Last year, one of the features that was being promoted big-time was the idea that you would be able to use the .Net languages to write your stored procedures. Now, I haven't heard any details on the actual final implementation of this but it makes me worried, and here's why...
This isn't really a tourist plug for the city, but rather encouraging you to come to the PASS Community Summit this November 11-14.