It’s coming towards the holiday season for me and I thought that I would wind-down a little with a non-technical post. I have been asked a few times over the past month where I got my online name from – BLOBEATER.

Well I will tell you. Firstly one of my favourite topics is DBCC CHECKDB ( and no I can’t use DBCC WRITEPAGE to fix corruption). Learning about it via sqlskills I noticed an internal variable called BlobEater which is a dummy variable with no purpose other than to consume any output from the CheckIndex function (source: http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/checkdb-internals-what-is-the-blobeater).

I thought this would be a good name for my online identity when you also throw in the fact that in my younger days my nick-name was BLOBBY!

So a past nick name + reference to of my favorite subjects ( which happens to be written by my ex-mentor) = best possible online name for me.

Thanks for reading.