Random thoughts on a Friday afternoon… We’ve all got problems. More to the point, every IT department or team has problems of some kind. It’s why we hire consultants, buy products, start long and arduous journeys into the great unknown depths of root cause analysis, and so on. What fascinates
Obligatory Melodrama No matter how much time goes by I still remember it. The day my database was crippled beyond reckoning. That moment when I saw my hopes for a bright and shining future with my database spill through my fingers like so many cracker crumbs falling on a clean
In my adventures in Twitterland I’ve noticed a lot of people who are using WordPress blogs (this one included). Some use wordpress.com which gives them a free blog with minimal theme and plugin choices; however, they get a lot of cool optimizations built in. If you’re like me and running
Last night I was called in on an unfortunate problem. A client has an update that they must run (unfortunately) which updates ~830,000 rows, setting one column equal to the other (two column table). On their development environment this was taking roughly twenty seconds to perform. However, on their soon-to-be
