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Hello and Welcome to the Swampland!

Thanks for visiting my new blog.  I have decided to create this blog in order to separate my personal blog from my professional blog as I become more involved in the online SQL Server community.  With...

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Martin Luther King, Jr Day 2012

In honor of the great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, I thought I would pass on some of his wisdom since I am at home enjoying my last holiday until Memorial Day.  Enjoy! “A man who won’t die for something...

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Excitement or Business As Usual?

After a hectic Monday morning, I sat back and reflected upon the events that occurred.  For most of my career, I would dread coming to work on Monday mornings, and I loathed the stressful work...

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[Insert witty comment here].  [Insert funny anecdotal story regarding life, my past, or my workplace].  [Insert second witty comment]. [Start new paragraph].  [Hope the reader hasn't clicked on their...

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Create Snapshot?

I’ve been working with VMWare snapshots, SQL Server snapshots and occasionally restore points in Windows.  With all of these options in our work life, I think we really need to be able to snapshot in...

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How to beat The Claw!

This article, How to beat The Claw | Unplugged – Yahoo! Games, is an interesting read and it brings back some great memories. My kids consider me the Claw champion, so much so that when I do not win...

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SWAG, I Love It, I Want Some More of It!

SWAG, also known as the “Stuff We All Get”, has been a tradition at trade shows, conferences, SQL Saturdays, User Group meetings, and meetings with sales reps for many, many years and yet I still get...

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Consequences…We All Face Them

When dealing with my teenagers, I’ve realized that the hardest concept for them to comprehend is consequences.  For example, they have done something wrong and I am going to take away their cell phone...

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Multitasking Is A Myth!

We take the term multitasking for granted these days.  Everyone is multitasking all day long.  We are checking our cell phones for e-mail while we are driving or in the restroom.  We talk on the cell...

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Commencement

This week marks the beginning of the end resulting in my daughter’s high school graduation.  The commencement.  In school, I knew the meaning of the word and was confused as to the usage since the...

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Money, My Two Cents

For some unknown reason, I have seen many articles and blogs lately regarding money.  Maybe its my subconscious, I don’t know.  Here are a couple of things that I have learned over the years. First of...

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Ponderings

While attending a viewing tonight for my wife’s cousin, I was once again reminded that life is too short to be unhappy.  Live your life to the fullest and savor every minutes.  Hug your family, call...

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Migration Tedium Pays Off

Today I am going through the tedium of checking row counts and randomly verifying data in round two of our conversion from Oracle to SQL Server.  This is very monotonous and it would be incredibly easy...

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Setting Your Sights

Today I went to a local gun range to try to sight my 7mm-08 Savage hunting rifle.  After missing several shots, I became somewhat agitated to not be hitting my target, not even hitting the paper....

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Milestones, Keeping Them in Perspective

Today is my daughter’s last high school marching band competition.  Being my youngest daughter, her senior year has been filled with “lasts” and she has been nostalgic to say the least, probably more...

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Database Ownership: An Editorial

Over the last few months, I have talked to a few different DBAs who tell me that their environments are setup in such a manner that many DBAs are involved yet no one ‘owns’ any of the servers.  When I...

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A Different Perspective

Every day at lunch I walk around the perimeter of the work compound in the fresh sunshine.  I have done this for over three months now.  Today, however, I went in the reverse direction and everything...

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Winds of Change

In today’s marketplace we are constantly bombarded with the word change. We hear on a daily basis that we must be flexible to change as the marketplace evolves. The workplace changes daily, yet we are...

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Time Flies When You’re Having Fun

On the drive in this morning, a precarious thought struck me: I have been working in the IT field now for 17 years! I have been using a computer for three fourths of my life. All I can say is, wow time...

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Rites of Passage

Today my youngest daughter will take her driving test. She is the third one in the house to take the exam and you’d think at this point I would be a pro at this but I’m a nervous wreck. I think I’m...

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