How monitoring voltage closely can save money… are there parallels for monitoring your systems closely? On my way in to work the other day, I caught an NPR story, Utility’s ‘Voltage Reduction’ Plan Saves Energy, about how a Washington state public utility is using “conservation voltage reduction” to save energy, and light bulbs. The electric […]
Friday fun – solving Sudoku with SQL
Using SQL in interesting ways Stumbled across these links on my Digg RSS feed. Two articles showing how to solve Sudoku puzzles with T-SQL and with Oracle SQL. I’ve been writing database doc long enough to find that absolutely awesome. Each article shows a few useful and complex SQL techniques. The T-SQL article is particularly […]
ITIL and monitoring
How monitoring your infrastructure can provide a base layer for ITIL practices I’m relatively new to BMC Performance Manager but I’ve learned a lot in the past year or so about the capabilities and how it fits into the Infrastructure and Application Management Route to Value. So this post talks about a white paper my […]