Verifying File Copy/Move Operations With Microsoft File Checksum Integrity Verifier

Being a DBA and data professional doesn’t mean I always work with SQL Server – sometimes I’m not working with databases at all. We’ve recently acquired some new storage at work (aka Daddy Warbucks bought us a new SAN) and I’ve been charged with moving things to it. Some aspects of this are easier than [...]

A Data-Centric Wedding

I’m back! I really never left, but due to the time spent putting the final pieces together for my wedding things got a bit stale here. I can’t really say I’m sorry though, as the whole experience created some great blog topics! As you now know if you didn’t already, I got [...]

Hosting Your Images With Amazon S3

Images make just about everything more interesting, which is why I do my best to include at least one with each blog post even if for nothing more than comic relief.

I run a few different websites, and a while ago I decided to host the images for all of them in the cloud using Amazon [...]