Midnight DBA

Part 4 of When to Leave your Job.

Part 5 of When to Leave your Job.

This week we have a nice talk about how to handle a DBA who isn't performing like he should (No, not like that!!). We also talk about bad GPSs and other stuff.

Part 2 of Firing DBAs.

Part 3 of Firing DBAs.

Part 4 of Firing DBAs.

Come see Jen teach beginning T-SQL at SQL Saturday #41 in Atlanta. Her clear explanations of things shorten your time to understand this complicated topic.

Come see Jen teach T-SQL Code Sins at SQL Saturday #41 in Atlanta. You see these huge mistakes in many shops so come take advantage of Jen's vast experience coding in real environments and avoid some of the mistakes she's seen.

While playing with our SQLChickens, we're trying to top the plagiarism video from last week in Redmond. So after messing around a little bit, our main topic this week is when to adopt new features and whether it's more hassle to support them in conjunction with old code or not.

Part 2 of Adopting New Features.

Part 3 of Adopting New Features.

Part 4 of Adopting New Features.

This is a fun one we did in Redmond while waiting for the SQL Server R2 TweetUp event at MS. We're here with Denny Cherry and Jorge Segarra to discuss the plagiarist John Dunleavy who has insisted on stealing material from real writers and authors and passing it off as his own. Come support us in our fight against smarmy little thieves like this.

Part 2 of Plagiarism.

Part 3 of Plagiarism.