Apr 29 2013
They Put THIS Guy in Charge? I am delighted to announce that I’ll be your friendly neighborhood Chairperson for SQL Connections Fall 2013. This means that I have a few things I’ll be responsible for over the course of the next 5 months: Solicit speakers for sessions and workshops related to Microsoft SQL Server [...]
Apr 18 2013
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle I’ve been touting lately in presentations at various SQL events that if you’re going to do something more than once to take time to script it out and save it for later. I’ve been doing that using native Templates in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio for years now. Lately, however, I’ve also [...]
Apr 10 2013
There are No Background Checks SQL Server Management Studio is a lovely product. It’s powerful. It’s feature-rich. It’s not yet been wrapped in a Metro interface. It’s free and easily-accessible. Your kids can download it (probably easier than most adults can.) Your kids can share it with other kids. Heck, the middle-manager in the finance [...]
Apr 9 2013
I owe many things to a twist of fate that placed me in front of the entirety of the attendees at the Professional Association for SQL Server Summit at Dallas, Texas in 2005. It was the second year that I’d produced the PASS Quizbowl along with Louis Davidson. We both enjoyed being “behind the curtain”; [...]
Mar 21 2013
I was caught off guard yesterday when a box arrived from my friends at Edgewood Solutions. You may know Edgewood better by the site they run, MSSQLTips.com. Shortly after my first writing “gig”, an article for Simple-Talk back in 2007, I was approached by Jeremy Kadlec and Greg Robidoux at Edgweood about writing for their [...]
Mar 15 2013
It Takes Time to Make a Thing Go Right It takes time to make it outta sight… I wish I had more time. I think we all do. Truth of the matter is we probably have much more time than we think we do but it comes down to how we spend that time. I’m [...]
Mar 15 2013
@@: It’s Not Just a Method of Imperial Troop Transport SELECT @@VERSION; It’s been a valid statement in Microsoft SQL Sever since at least SQL Server 2000. (One could assume further back then 2000 even, but if you’re lucky you don’t have any SQL B.2K. instances to test against.) Every version of SQL Server [...]
Mar 8 2013
PowerPoint, Hammers, Processed Mac n’ Cheese, and Presentation Arts I’m taking a new approach to producing presentations. In the past I’ve always come up with an idea and then spent countless hours in PowerPoint designing, writing, and conceptualizing the full presentation. Converting what may start out as fresh food for thought and over-processing it [...]
