Yup, I suck.

I have been pinned down with employee reviews and SQL PASS abstracts. On top of that, I have been learning Linux and Oracle instead of working with SQL. It is fun. I am learning 30 things a day but it is either level 100 or 500 for this crowd. I will put out a Oracle cheat sheet for SQL DBA’s soon though.

You can peep my life stream if you want to keep up.

Until then I will keep failing…

No News is Bad News

It means I have been getting my a$$ handed to me at work. It is a good thing. I like action but I like blogging too. Anyway I have a few topics queued up but until then I will post a few links.

The company I work for was awarded by VMWare as Service Provider of the Year.

SQLChicken(WWW, RSS, Twitter) posted on ESX 4.0 aka vSphere from a DBA’s perspective.

The MySQL founder talks about the OracleSUN acquisition.

Tony Bain’s Twitter feed has some interesting linkscommentary regarding Oracle and MySQL.

There is also an article on the OracleSUN deal means to MSFT. I don’t agree 100% though.

RE: Dear #SQLPASS, Don’t BI us to Death

Last week, I wrote an editorial that I tried to keep fact based and my opinion out of. Wait, is that still an editorial? Anyway, I was happy to see this post by Bill Graziano(RSS, Twitter) today. BTW, have you subscribed to the SQLPASS blog?

I was concerned that the BI track would be taking away from the other tracks even though it didn’t look to be justified based on the survey. My concerns have been alleviated.

Here are a few quotes:

• We also increased the total number of sessions at the conference to 168.
• First, we’re going to have more OLTP sessions than we’ve ever had before.
• Second, the combination of the Application Development track and DBA track is now larger than the entire conference was in 2006.
• We think our overall mix of roughly two-thirds OLTP and one-third BI will meet the needs of our conference attendees.

Again the full post can be found here.

Dear PASS, Don’t BI us to Death

I hope I do not offend my BI brethren. I am just stating the facts from the survey and the fact that that the abstract submission deadline has been extended due to fact that the BI conference has been canceled.

My request is that the number of sessions per track reflect the survey results. I hope that the BI track is not inflated to the point that it cuts out sessions from other tracks.

Here are some fact from the survey which can be found here.

• 89% of the people surveyed are DBA’s or DBD’s
• 27% of the people surveyed are BI professionals.
• 69% of the people surveyed answered the questions on the DBA track. 58% want advanced topics.
• 68% of the people surveyed answered the questions on the database dev track. 59% want advanced topics.
• 54% of the people surveyed answered the questions on the BI track. 56% of those want intermediate sessions.
• 60% of the people surveyed answered the questions on the Professional Development track.

Based on the survey DBA and Database Dev tracks should have the most sessions. The Professional Development and BI tracks should have close to an equal number. In the past, it seems like the BI sessions doubled or tripled the Professional Development session.

I am trying to keep opinion out of this post so I leave it an this. Am I misinterpreting the numbers? What are your thoughts?

Disclosure: I am team lead on the DBA abstract selection team and I have submitting a single ProDev abstract.

Very Busy Week

And it’s not over yet…. Although I am not jet setting like BrentO and Rushabh Mehta, I am it the Seattle Airport with time to kill so I thought I would make a post. I got to visit One Microsoft Way on a secret mission. Unfortunately, I can’t say anything but hopefully it will involve adding credibility to the Microsoft SQL certs.

Anyway, I have a few posts lined up. I will have time to write them this weekend so we will be getting back to the normally scheduled program. Until then, here are a few interesting items that you may or may not have already seen.

Extended Events Manager 

Migration Options for Hardware with Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008

[Windbg Script] Retrieving queries/stored procedures from .NET application

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