So there are a ton of things I could talk about with this–helping each other remotely, being stuck, bored in a hotel room in another country and assisting with a restore for entertainment, or the fact that if I travel to almost anywhere I have someone to hang out with, but there’s more. The night […]
Author: jdanton1
How to Find Data File Page Counts for a Table
Last week one of the guys on my DBA team, asked me if I knew of a way to identify which data from a table is in a particular data file. SQL Server (when it has multiple data files) typically does a proportional fill of data files—it will try to write an even amount of […]
Presenting at SQL Saturday 96 (Washington DC)
I’ll be presenting two sessions at SQL Saturday #96 in Washington, DC (well actually Chevy Chase, MD) on November 6. If you are in the mid-Atlantic and looking to get a great day of SQL Server education, please signup. The two topics I will be presenting on are Virtualization for DBAs and SANs for DBAs. […]
PASS Wrapup
The best thing I can tell you about the PASS Summit is my sleeping schedule since I’ve been home–on Saturday night I slept for about 11 hours, Sunday was more normal at 9, and then Monday night was big, with me going to bed at 8 and waking up around 7. So, now that I’m […]
PASS Day Three Keynote–Dr. DeWitt
I’m starting with my last paragraph–this blog post is a really long read. I recommend going to the SQLPASS website and watching this keynote, you will learn a ton about NoSQL and how it works.. This was truly incredible–really in-depth technical content, explained in a way that DBAs could easily understand. If anyone from PASS […]
Salary Data–Where to Get It..
So in yesterday’s WIT luncheon, there was a bit of discussion on salary data. There was even a discussion on going to your local HR department, to find out the range for your position. DON’T FREAKING DO THAT!!!! This could be a whole another topic, but you don’t want to send a loud signal to […]
SQL Pass–Day 2 Keynote
Bill Graziano took the stage in a lovely green kilt, with proper socks. Talking about growth in PASS outside of North America. For those of you not directly involved, PASS has been making a big (and successful) push to grow regions particularly outside in Europe and Asia. Lori Edwards (twitter) is the winner of the […]
What PASS Has Meant to Me and My Career
On the eve of leaving for my first PASS Summit, I wanted to talk a little bit about what the SQL Server community has meant to me and my career. In my older roles at Wyeth, I was largely an Oracle DBA, but I had always dabbled in SQL Server since the beginning of my […]
Meme Monday
This Meme Monday is hosted by Tom Larock (blog|twitter) and the subject is the worst way you have ever been asked for help. Well my last project had some nightmarish moments, like getting called at midnight for a minor problem, or having a 2 am conference call. But one developer really took the cake with […]
Time for Change
As some of you may have seen on my LinkedIn profile, I recently made a job change. This as always was a hard decision, as I really liked the folks I was working with at my old company and getting to work in Europe (Switzerland) was a great career experience. Here’s a little bit of […]