EMC World 2008 Day 0
Today is the check-in and welcome party for EMC World. EMC and Brocade had the Goo Goo Dolls perform at the welcome party. The party and show were fantastic.
Back To Basics: Service Broker Message Types
The message type is the first of the service broker specific objects. The message type defines the name of the message, and performs any validation that the service broker needs to do on the contents of the message prior to sending the message. If the message is being sent to another database (on the same server or a different server) then the message type must exist on both databases.
Any other DBAs brave enough to go to EMC World?
Next week I’ll be stepping into the lion’s den of sorts. I’ll be off to Las Vegas to attend EMC World. I went last year, and I’m pretty sure that I was about the only full time DBA there. The storage folks treated me pretty nice, even after they found out that I was a […]
Data Normalization, with storage being so cheap what’s the point?
Back in the old days one of the big reasons that people enforced such strict rules on data normalization was because it would greatly increase the amount of information you could fit on the hard drive. Back when everything was measured in kilobytes or megabytes storing redundant information simply wasn’t an option. You had to be able to cram as much information into that little database.