The topic for this months T-SQL Tuesday #112 hosted by Shane O’Neill (Blog / Twitter) is about “dipping into your cookie jar”. This reference means “when times get tough how do you dip into your reserves to keep going”. Shane asks the following:
That is what I want from the contributors of this T-SQL Tuesday, those memories that they can think back on for sustenance. Like the humble cookie, I want a humble brag.
Read on as I share some stories…
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Wait statistic are a fundamental concept of any RDBMS. Let’s review some basics of troubleshooting performance issues with wait statistics.
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There are many articles online describing SQL Server data compression. In this post I will summarize some of the salient points.
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SQL Server and VMware go together like peanut butter and jelly. Read on to look into the details…
Read on to see how to understand, analyze, and manage the SQL Server Error Log…
If you haven’t already read the invitation please read it first: T-SQL Tuesday #107 Invitation: Death March
Now let’s see a summary of this month’s submissions!
Hope to see you there!
“Tell me your project horror stories – the worse the better”
Through some redaction, slight change of facts, and creative control with some details I will protect the innocent; and in this case, the guilty as well.
If you don’t have time to read my lengthy exposition then please skip down to the section titled “The Making of a Death March Project”.
More companies than ever before could be considered “software companies”. Project planning hasn’t gotten much better over time and we still have terribly managed projects. The best reason to explain this I found on Quora – Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? In particular, read the answer by Michael Wolfe midway through the page. It is both a humorous and scary analogy.
On this month of Halloween we are going to discuss our death march project horrors!