gdp's Comments

Brent Ozar - SQL Server DBA : Are You Being Treated Fairly?

Thu, 5 Mar 2009 19:04:50 +0000

Thanks for the post Brent! I wanted to add to the professional development stuff. I've subscribed to http://audible.com for years. They have a ton of professional development books. If you don't have time to read, the books are really easy to listen to during a commute. I also listen while working around the yard and doing housework. They don't have many SQL Server books though. :)

Brent Ozar - SQL Server DBA : SQL Server 2010 Features Leaked!

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:42:27 +0000

Unfortunately, Starter Edition won't be sold in the US.

Brent Ozar - SQL Server DBA : My First Computer

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:37:40 +0000

Ok, I answered your tag.

Rob Boek : SSIS Resources

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:30:18 +0000

Doug, Thanks for the link. I updated the post. Definitely check out the Oregon SQL Dev group if you get a chance. Let me know if you are going to attend.

Brent Ozar - SQL Server DBA : Putting ads on your old WordPress posts

Thu, 5 Feb 2009 23:01:14 +0000

Putting ads on your old posts is a great idea. I've also been looking at the No Adverts for Friends plugin which won't show ads to people coming from certain sites or people who have left a comment. I wonder if it would play nice with the one you are using.

Rob Boek : FizzBuzz in T-SQL

Thu, 5 Feb 2009 05:22:54 +0000

That would be because the default MAXRECURSION is 100. If you want to go above that, add OPTION(MAXRECURSION 102) after the ORDER BY clause. You can use 0 for unlimited, but be careful.

Brent Ozar - SQL Server DBA : Syndicating Your Blog at SQLServerPedia

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:26:52 +0000

I have a few more thoughts. It seems like the syndicated bloggers are now coming through the main SSP feed. This is causing a lot of duplicate content for me as I am already subscribed to the individual blogs. I am interesting in getting SSP news, but I'm not interesting in weeding through a ton of duplicate content just to get the occasional interesting new post. I understand your concern about syncing comments to SSP which is why I suggested linking back to the original post to see the comments. The "related posts" widget that you mentioned doesn't seem to show up in the SSP RSS feed anyway.

Brent Ozar - SQL Server DBA : Syndicating Your Blog at SQLServerPedia

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:44:50 +0000

One issue I have with syndication is comments. The way it's setup right now, it seems like there are two separate places for comments. I think it would be much nicer if you could disable commenting on SQLServerPedia and somehow direct back to the original post for comments.

Brent Ozar - SQL Server DBA : Top 10 Questions To Ask During an Interview

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:50:21 +0000

I don't know what it's like in other parts of the country, but at least where I'm at, there still seems to be a demand for good SQL Server DBAs. Entry level jobs are harder to come by, but for the highly skilled, there are quite a few choices. As this list shows, there is a lot to consider besides salary.

Another Blogger : Deciding Who to Follow on Twitter

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:49:50 +0000

Good post. I hadn't really thought about it, but I use a very similar thought process when deciding who to follow.

Rob Boek : Switched Hosting Companies

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:51:39 +0000

Are you on a unix or windows hosting plan at GoDaddy? I was on a windows (IIS7) plan, and the problem I was having is that I couldn't get Url Rewriting to work correctly on secondary sites. It worked fine on the primary site in the root but they are using some sort of rewriting for the secondary sites that was conflicting with what I was trying to do. The other problem I had was that every settings change took hours. The code box I'm using is wp-syntax. I tried several and the one worked the best.

Brent Ozar - SQL Server DBA : Top 10 Questions To Ask During an Interview

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:54:55 +0000

Great list. Thanks Brent!

Brent Ozar - SQL Server DBA : About those blogging rules...

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:19:06 +0000

Looks like you fixed it already :)

Brent Ozar - SQL Server DBA : About those blogging rules...

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:09:58 +0000

Your CSS changes seem to have broke the "About Me" section on your sidebar.