“The Tuesday Night Fire Code Violation”
It was July 19, 2005. At least, I’m pretty sure it was. Based on IndyPASS’s meeting history, that second meeting way down at the bottom (use your keyboard’s End key; that’s what it’s there for) was basically a “here’s what’s new/awesome in SQL Server 2005” presentation. I’ve long since lost most of my email from […]
Big Challenges in Data Modeling: Ethics & Data Modeling
From the “There’s a first time for everything” file, I can announce that I’m going to be joining an online panel discussion this Thursday (ie, tomorrow), April 24 at 2:00p EDT (11a Pacific). I know! Topic This discussion will be about Ethics and Data Modeling. It’s part of a monthly series put on by Dataversity […]
PASS Board of Directors Voting and Endorsement (#PASSVotes)
Disclosure: My wife, Tamera Clark, is on this year’s Nomination Committee for the PASS Board of Directors. This means she was on the team which evaluated those who threw their hats into the ring to run in this election. The comments below do not reflect her work on that committee, her opinions on the subject, […]
High Availability in SQL Server Standard Edition (or Semi-Lack Thereof)
SQ Server 2012 brought about some major changes to the various High Availability schemes supported by the product. The most major of these is the introduction of AlwaysOn Availability Groups. As described early in that MSDN article, these can be over-simplified summed up as “enterprise-level database mirroring.” This is not quite the same thing as […]