July 28, 2011 9:00 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
AuditMy company has an audit coming up and I saw this post and thought I should take a look since we are getting ready for our audit. So take a look and let me know what you think about this.
July 28, 2011 3:44 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Invite,
Music,
Spotify,
Streamingnot to long ago I did a post about Spotify and gave you a link to go get an invite. well since then I have been playing with the service a bit, just on my PC, as I am...
July 27, 2011 3:20 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
EVO3D,
HTC EVO3D,
PhoneI have had the Sprint HTC Hero for just about 2 years now and I loved the phone overall. Like any device it got old and slow and stopped getting updates. Once it got really bad about 6 months ago, I rooted and romed the phone and it came back to life. Sure I had some bugs and things were not...
July 27, 2011 8:00 AM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Tools,
TroubleshootingI use SQL Nexus all the time to identify bottlenecks of my SQL Servers and I absolutely love the tool. I ran into a small issue though where I could not always load the *.trc files. It would start and fail very quickly and move on to importing the other...
July 26, 2011 7:00 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
T-SQLI was recently asked by one of the application teams to come up with a way to kill all spids associated with a particular application once a day. Well I am not a t-sql guru by any means so I took this as a challenge and for once I did not pull out powershell but decided to go with T-SQL. With power...
July 26, 2011 5:45 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
SQLSkills,
TrainingJust got my reminder from the hotel about my stay starting this Sunday for the SQLSkills immersion event. I am very excited for this and can not wait to get there. I have a lot going on at the office and I think that this training will help me better deal with some of what I have going on.
Also...
July 21, 2011 10:17 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Free,
SQL Server,
TrainingBrentOzarPLF is has started a new thing that they are calling Technology Triage Tuesdays. This is great and the first one is online at BrenOzar.com. These guys are great and I thank them...
July 15, 2011 4:59 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Music,
SpotifySpotify is a music streaming service that has been around in the UK for a while now but it just launched in the US. right now you have to be invited to Spotify to get a free membership. Currently Spotify has an invite only free streaming service and you can get your invite at this link:
July 12, 2011 10:28 PM
Posted by: Colin Smith
Netflix,
PricesJust saw that Netflix is increasing the prices. For me this means that I will drop my disks all together and just do the streaming for $7.99 a month. I dropped cable in order to save money not just to ship it all over to Netflix. So now I will just use Redbox and or Blockbuster or Vudu when I need...
