It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL). And see these throughout the day as I tweet out links of things I find interesting. While these links aren’t the answer to life, the universe, and everything, they often share a few things about SQL Server and related technology topics that others may find useful.
The links included in this summary are those prefixed with “Reading” and are items I’ve read over the past few days, usually after hours when sharing would be less than useful, and spaced out to avoid spamming. The content of the links usually pertain to SQL Server, technology, and career topics; which I think others would find useful.
The Most Popular “Reading” Link
This weeks most popular link last week is a post by Rob Farley (Blog | @Rob_Farley) as part of the recent T-SQL Tuesday. Rob discusses nepotism in his post and it’s relationship to SQL Family – or maybe he was just announcing that Ted Krueger (Blog | @Onpnt) was now one of his employees. A clever post and I wish them luck in the new venture.
Reading: "Nepotism In The SQL Family" http://t.co/dtU4tZNjCJ #sqlpass
— Jason Strate (@StrateSQL) August 12, 2014
Last week’s top 14 “Reading” Links
Along with the top link, here are the top fourteen items (it was a slow week of reading) relating to SQL Server, technology and careers that were shared last week. If you missed them throughout the week, here’s the opportunity to get caught up on some items that other’s read after I linked them out.
- Nepotism In The SQL Family [35 clicks]
- HOW TO: Know What That Installer Did to Your Database [15 clicks]
- Too many single use plans, now what? [9 clicks]
- T-SQL Tuesday #57–SQL Family and Community [8 clicks]
- Third Party Applications and Other Acts of Violence Against Your SQL Server [7 clicks]
- Learning Machine Learning using a Jet Engine [7 clicks]
- What If You Want to Be “Internet Famous?” [6 clicks]
- Auditing in Azure SQL Database [5 clicks]
- Announcing the Preview of Disaster Recovery to Azure using Azure Site Recovery [4 clicks]
- Free ebook: Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure [3 clicks]
- Why Should I Attend The 1st Timers Webcast [3 clicks]
- VSS backup of AlwaysOn Secondaries [3 clicks]
- Comparing Windows Azure VM Performance, Part 2
- Having performance issues with table variables? SQL Server 2012 SP2 can help!
Other Stuff Shared
Of course, no week would be complete without a few off-topic links. These have nothing to do with technology or your career, but they are interesting and worth a second look.
- What it’s like to play online games as a grownup – The Oatmeal [44 clicks]
- Hospital charges $9,000 to bandage cut middle finger [33 clicks]
- Other Middle-Aged Harry Potter Books J.K. Rowling Has Planned [17 clicks]
- Doctor Who: Every Story 1963-2013 – A 50th Anniversary Update by Babelcolour [6 clicks]
Got something you think I should read and share, leave a comment below. Also, if you want to see all of the links that were tweeted out last week?