Unrelated Relationship Ramblings

It’s Tuesday somewhere when this post goes up. In fact when this goes live it will be sometime around Tuesday afternoon or evening in Adelaide Australia. Why there? This month’s “T-SQL Tuesday” is being hosted by Rob Farley over at his place. His topic is “relationships”. He talks about the history of T-SQL Tuesday [...]

My Greatest Weakness?

Around The Blogosphere
I was enjoying being an audience to the “greatest weakness” posts going around in the latest meme. This time it was started by David Stein who blogs (quite regularly) over at Made2Mentor.com in his post, “What is your biggest weakness? – The Classic Interview Question”.

As I said, I was enjoying reading the posts. [...]

About Us

Who Is Mike Walsh?
Hi – I’m Mike Walsh. Professionally, I am the Principal SQL Server Database Administrator and SQL Server subject matter expert for a Fortune 100 insurance company.
Personally, I am a husband, father to two (and growing!) great children and a Christian. I spend spare time playing with my kids, fly-fishing in New England, [...]

Conciseness

Mike’s blog has been hijacked by a duck.

… okay, maybe not. Hi, I’m K. Brian Kelley and I am guest blogging on Mike’s blog. Normally I write on security topics over at SQL Server Central, but I couldn’t resist following up to this excellent blog post by Mike.
Why Conciseness Matters
Ever open an email that looks [...]

What’s Your Point?

As a DBA you are getting pinched between developers, project managers, budget conscious managers and server teams. When a critical issue with no one easy answer for those people pops up, what do you do? You can panic or try and point the blame someplace else or you can rise to the situation and help [...]