>Being a lazy guy that I always am, I try to find ways to make my life easier. When we finished fixing all the issues in our test server, I recommended that we simply backup the MSDB database and restore it on the production server. This way, I don’t have to recreate the jobs on […]

In my previous blog post, I talked about overinvesting in people. As a follow-up post to that, I would like to highlight the need for ATMs for your employees and staff. ATM stands for ATTRACT, TRAIN and MOTIVATE. First, attract the best people. We expect our organizations to grow and become globally competitive in the […]

I was listening to the audio abridged version of How to Become CEO: The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization by Jeffrey J. Fox on my way to work. I have managed to read the book version of the audio MP3 a couple of years before but didn’t have a chance to […]

As a follow-up on the Double As blog post, I was on the phone almost 3 weeks ago talking to a cousin of mine and simply asking her about how she was doing. She was basically tasked to take care of her three nephews, all boys, as her sister – the boy’s mom – had […]

>And so the tests continues…One of the things that I need to test during the upgrade was database connectivity. We know the standard osql, sqlcmd, isql and Query Analyzer tests from a remote client where you supply either a Windows or SQL Server account to login to the database server. Once connected, we are practically […]