Life Changes Part 1 2006 was a great year, and a very busy year, both personally and professionaly. Over the last several years, I have been reassessing my priorities and how I spend my time, and this was amplified with the changes in my life in 2006.
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Well, today's the day! Today, November 7, 2005, a date which will NOT live in infamy, but hey, it's still kinda cool. Today is the official launch date for SQL Server 2005 (nee Yukon).
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At the PASS Summit, I attended a session on Reporting Services Tips & Tricks. One of the things that I liked most was not a tip or trick, but a new feature coming in RS 2005.
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For those who noticed or cared, the CaldwellBlog is back online (new URL) after an extended summer hiatus.
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OUCH! My head hurts! A little while ago I finished taking a Brainbench test on SQL Server 2000 Programming and my brain still aches. I haven't been in test-taking mode for many years and it was quite an experience.
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Do you read software licensing agreements when you install software? Maybe you should. I must confess that most of the time I just quickly skim them to see if anything dramatic jumps out at me.
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Out of respect to Graz who gave me the opportunity to blog here on the subject of SQL Server, and puts up with my ramblings on business; and in order to keep this SQLTeam blog more pure, I have setup my own personal blog where I am free to rant and rave on any subject (like politics).
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A question on SQLTeam a few weeks ago got me thinking about the idea of what language you THINK in. Do you remember the movie Firefox? (Okay, that came out in 1982, before some of you were even born, but at the time I was a Clint Eastwood fan and into military aircraft, so back off!
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Is this ironic, or what? On my ranting entitled Spammers are the Scum of the Earth (back in January) which talks about Comment Spam, I just had somebody post comment spam to it.
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You DO backup your databases, don't you? And you do test your backups occasionally to make sure they're good, don't you?
One of my clients didn't, and they got bit hard recently.
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“You DO have a separate development environment, don't you?” I've made a comment like that a few times here on the blog, and to an experienced DBA it seems so obvious, but let's talk about it just to be sure (and for those people just starting their careers).
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Damian got hit by comment spam on his blog. So did I. Apparently they did a search for the phrases Title + Name + URL + Comments + “Remember Me“ which are the fields on the comment section of blogs powered by .
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SET EMBARASSMENT ON
Okay, I have to come clean, and do it as publicly as I did with my mistake. A couple of days ago in my My Favorite Rant posting, I accused some web sites of manipulating my system to add their site to my Favorites list in Internet Explorer.
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SET RANT ON
DAMMIT!!! Somebody's messin' with my Favorites, and I'm not happy about it! I've noticed this trend over the last couple of weeks. I'll browse to a site, oftentimes just one page because it was a link off of somebody's blog, I'll read the page, maybe I enjoy it, but rarely am I so enthralled with the writing that I want to bookmark the whole site.
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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. I don't think I'll open the floodgates on the first three subjects here on my SQLTeam weblog, but the last one is a suitable subject.
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Following up on my comments on Brent's post about international outsourcing, Dell recently announced that they are pulling back some of the customer support that they had directed to India. It turns out that some customers were not happy with the quality of the support they were getting.
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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.
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To answer Scoble's question, the recent TPC-C benchmarks that MS is proclaiming were run on a 64-way, 64-bit machine with 1/2 TB of RAM. I'm pretty sure I heard Gordon Magnione say this in his keynote at PASS.
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I previously blogged about my fears that making the .NET languages available in Yukon might lead to horrible stored procedures by people who don't understand the difference between set-based and iterative processing.
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And 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. There will be lab exercises provided for people to try out the new features.
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