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I am in full agreement. The major reason I still go to the PASS conferences is that sometimes (and usually from a non-Microsoft speaker) I see/hear a demo that...
Mike Byrd
April 13, 2010 at 7:32 am
While I am all in favor of security, I just don't want government involved on deciding what I can do and cannot do or must do. Remember this is...
Mike Byrd
March 17, 2010 at 7:06 am
Wow, a tool like that is long overdue. By benchmarking your dev environment with production you could also "trend" how your development releases should do in the production environment....
Mike Byrd
November 16, 2009 at 6:34 am
I ran it several times this morning -- everytime getting same error.
Mike Byrd
October 16, 2009 at 9:37 am
Hmm, really got me interested, but when I ran it on our production OLTP server (24x7), I received an error (below) as well as the total numbers were almost too...
Mike Byrd
October 16, 2009 at 7:19 am
Interesting article and very timely for me. My big question is how do you detect errors/slow running queries etc? Do you need to run profiler again to detect...
Mike Byrd
April 8, 2009 at 9:25 am
In Germany, you can get a beer (usually cheaper than soda) at a Burger King or McDs. Also mustard is different.
Mike Byrd
January 15, 2009 at 12:08 pm
While I agree that the actual travel is a pain, I think just going to a new location and immersing yourself in a different environment is what life is all...
Mike Byrd
January 15, 2009 at 6:57 am
I don't think the role of DBA is going away, but it is evolving. I remember attending a PASS seminar a couple years ago and Kalen Delaney said right...
Mike Byrd
December 2, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Well I agree with your statement about being careful with temporary tables, don't ignore them. In many cases I have taken a complex multi-table query and broken it up...
Mike Byrd
November 17, 2008 at 7:25 am
At my current job I made it (unwritten) a condition of employment that I could attend the PASS conference (or one like it) every year. For the last 2...
Mike Byrd
August 15, 2008 at 6:26 am
I try and play tennis 2-3 times a week. When I don't have a match scheduled I take group lessons (also helps with the conditioning). On weekends I...
Mike Byrd
August 8, 2008 at 6:30 am
I've always been a strong proponent of normalization, but it can be carried overboard -- as in the OLTP database I inherited at my current job. It had been...
Mike Byrd
July 8, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I agree with Phil's attitude dialogue, but want to expand on it. I would be looking for someone that is a "jack of all trades" and enjoys problem solving....
Mike Byrd
June 20, 2008 at 9:47 am
Nice script, but where is definition (create table) for physical_stats?
Mike Byrd
June 9, 2008 at 6:52 am
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