Officially disguised as a Canadian
Author: RandolphVia Tim Radney, here’s a quick and easy way to increase the number of error logs from the default of six. His blog has a walkthrough in SQL Server Management Studio if you prefer the GUI. [Note: If you copy and paste this code, please be sure to check the quotation marks. WordPress may changeContinue reading Increasing SQL Server Error Logs
Happy new year.
Good news, all three of you that follow this blog and are interested in my ShutOff application: it’s almost done! Luckily it hasn’t taken me over twelve years to get to this point! Last week I realised that twelve years brings with it a new era: the death of anything before Windows XP, and theContinue reading ShutOff 2000 Update
30 seconds of pain. Mortifying. Two ways to describe my first television advert on Lloydminster’s local news channel. I did it as a favour for a chartered plane company in town, and when you take into account that I didn’t want to do any lines on camera, the end result wasn’t too bad. To saveContinue reading Canadian television debut
Speaking of tribute pages, here’s one to the immortal Tom Selleck, sent to me by Aidan. (He also sent me to this Dave Coulier shrine.)
Since I’ve moved everything to WordPress, I was able to use a WordPress plugin for my David Hasselhoff Tribute Page, which you can now find here.
Today at the clinic, we did the second of three phases of network reorganisation. In the first phase, which we completed a week ago, our new server was set up with the EMR software, all data was migrated from the old server, and the vendor remoted in to make sure everything was up and running.Continue reading What I did today
Thus far I have made it through 11 of the MCM videos on SQLSkills.com, as well as the associated demos. There is a large amount of information in these videos, and I’ve been learning a lot. The point of this training next year is to fill in the blanks. I consider my T-SQL skills forContinue reading SQL Preparation, Part the Second
As I noted in a previous entry, I’m going to be upgrading my SQL Server knowledge with the best minds in the business, in early 2012. To prepare myself for this training, I’m planning on going through the 40+ hours of videos that are provided for MCM training, as well as two of the requiredContinue reading SQL Preparation, Part the First
John Gruber calls it “Claim Chowder” where someone predicts something in the future that is shown as completely wrong, as the future catches up to those claims. As I’m going through my 900+ blog entries to make sure internal links are working, and having a good chuckle at the expense of myself (after all, what’sContinue reading Hazards of recorded history …