Monthly Archives: February 2011

The final voyage of the USNS H. H. Hess

My first ship, the USNS H. H. Hess, is currently enroute to Brownsville, TX where it will be cut up into scrap metal and recycled.  The Hess was an oceanographic survey vessel that was operated by the Military Sealift Command … Continue reading

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Free SQL Server training videos

The people over at SQLSkills.com have made their MCM training videos available online for free.  They’re pretty incredible.  Subject areas include database internals and performance, high availability and disaster recovery, performance tuning,  security and development support.  Link here:  http://www.sqlskills.com/T_MCMVideos.asp   … Continue reading

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