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Comment on Meme Monday for February by Why Every DBA is a Clown

Why Every DBA is a Clown — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:00:54 +0000

[...] going to fail. For those new to the event, #mememonday is the community creation of Thomas LaRock (Blog|Twitter), the driving force of which is to encourage the SQL community to put virtual pen to paper. [...]

Comment on Meme Monday for February by Deadlines and Data Architects: You know the Date, Do You Know the Deliverable? #MemeMonday | InfoAdvisors' Blog

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:54:51 +0000

[...] appears I’m an expert at deadline-driven accomplishments. I mean, it’s meme Monday and even though I’ve known about the deadline for today’s post for weeks, I’m [...]

Comment on Meme Monday for February by Meme Monday: Working with Deadlines | Doug Lane

Meme Monday: Working with Deadlines | Doug Lane — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:43:52 +0000

[...] response to Tom LaRock’s Meme Monday, I’m writing about working with deadlines. I’m going to take the developer approach and [...]

Comment on Meme Monday for February by Meme Monday – February – Working with deadlines « diligentdba

Meme Monday – February – Working with deadlines « diligentdba — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:41:36 +0000

[...] This is in response to Thomas LaRock’s invitation for Meme Monday: [...]

Comment on Guest Post at SQL Server Team Blog: How to Jumpstart Your Career as a DBA by sqlrockstar

sqlrockstar — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:05:43 +0000

KBK,

Agreed. Unfortunately, I work from home now!

Comment on Guest Post at SQL Server Team Blog: How to Jumpstart Your Career as a DBA by K. Brian Kelley

K. Brian Kelley — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:17:00 +0000

I need to put some of the lessons of that book (never eat alone) into better practice. It’s definitely worth the time to read and think about the principles Ferrazzi outlines.

Comment on Stop Guessing About CPU Pressure by sqlrockstar

sqlrockstar — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:08:08 +0000

Yes, IgniteVM shows you the waits, same as Ignite8 would do.

The reason I don’t look at waits first is because I want to make certain I rule out the “noisy neighbor”. If my host has disk saturation, then knowing my query is waiting for disk won’t help me make that query faster. I want to address the root cause of performance problems, and not the symptoms or effects.

Comment on Stop Guessing About CPU Pressure by nujakcities

nujakcities — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:31:00 +0000

Hi Tom, this is by far your best post in a very long time. Even though you are trying to sell a product you have provided very good information.

Since it takes microseconds to run a good waits query… why wouldn’t you do that first? It doesn’t seem like a waste of time if you have a properly balanced virtual environment.

Does IgniteVM show you the waits?

Comment on The Oddest Job Interview Questions for 2011 by Armando Torres

Armando Torres — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:13:00 +0000

Very good article on the 5 questions for interviewing a DBA and I liked the article as well for the weirdest questions asked at an interview. Luckily I have not gotten one of those because I might of laughed at the weirdness of the question. Not sure what relevance they have for these question unless they are trying to get a reaction or see how you handle different situations or in this case, questions. Those questions would not help me relax.

Comment on Contact Me by Stop Guessing About CPU Pressure | SQLRockstar | Thomas LaRock

Stop Guessing About CPU Pressure | SQLRockstar | Thomas LaRock — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:21:56 +0000

[...] to chat more about monitoring your virtual database servers? Then contact me and I would be happy to set up some time to talk. Also, Confio has regular product demos: go [...]