This week I started working at Emergency Reporting doing database performance tuning and scalability work. Currently this is a half time gig focused on SQL Server… Read More »Database Tuning at Emergency Reporting
SQL Server can run in a number of different compatibility levels, but how do you change it and how do you set it. These compatibility… Read More »SQL Server 2008 compatibility levels
Since I am no longer paying for an broadcast television service (other than Netflix). Not satellite, no cable TV, and no broadcast TV. Now I… Read More »Giving up on Regular Broadcast TV
A week or so ago I heard someone on the radio talking about Open DNS as a way to help protect children from some of… Read More »OpenDNS Review – What a Great Site, what a great service
Leaving the corporate world and going freelance.
MySQL is to Oracle as Linux is to Windows. Limiting Result Sets Oracle supports ROWNUM to limit the result Sets SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE… Read More »A Comparison of Oracle and MySQL
This week I moved my blog away from the Simple PHP Blog that was a free open source product. It appeared to have too many… Read More »New Blog
SQL Server can run in a number of different compatibility levels, but how do you change it and how do you set it. These compatibility… Read More »SQL Server 2005 Compatibility Level
Wow, what a day, this was a fabulous adventure. We rented a SUV and the guy at the rental shop told us that we were… Read More »Kauai Tunnel Hike
Installing, configuring and administering SQL Server for Microsoft Great Plains. What a bunch of crazy table names.