Apr 12 2010
I’m currently reviewing the compiled results for the recent PASS Summit Content survey that went out to all Professional Association for SQL Server members. Thank you to all of you who took the time out of your brutally-busy schedule to assist the Programming Committee in guiding us to another successful summit in November 2010. I [...]
Mar 5 2010
Want some free training? Want some free training from upwards of 18+ SQL Server MVPs and local SQL Server Professionals? Well come join me in Charlotte, NC tomorrow for SQL Saturday #33! I’ll be presenting two sessions: Harnessing the Power of Lazy: How to Automate Your Way To Success As A DBA Dynamic Management Objects [...]
Feb 16 2010
New Coke? Crystal Pepsi? Gary Cherone standing on stage next to Michael Anthony and Eddie Van Halen? Failed attempts to add engery and re-invigorate a successful brand due to either attrition or evolution. That is where we are now with the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) assimilation of the SQL Saturday program as recently [...]
Dec 31 2009
I’ve been tagged by Tom LaRock… …to broadcast my resolutions for the next year for all to see (or at least the 6 readers of my blog to see, and the corporate attorney for my company to read should I say anything detrimental to THE HAND THAT FEEDS.) There is only one issue [...]
Dec 17 2009
I remember my first time on stage. I was in 4th Grade. It was this time of year. I was Schroeder in our boys-only school production of A Charlie Brown Christmas and I owned the part. To this day whenever my sons and I watch A Charlie Brown Christmason ABC still doesn’t seem right since [...]
Dec 5 2009
A month ago many of you who read this blog were either sitting in sessions, half-way through the last PASS Community Summit, or were hearing about it though Twitter, blog posts, etc. So, what have you taken away from those sessions? We all leave these events with minds full and fingers itchy; ready to get [...]
Nov 16 2009
It’s been a week now since the 2009 PASS Community Summit ended. The last of us filed out of Seattle on Monday and here it is, Monday all over again. So did you implement anything you learned at the Summit yet? All those fresh ideas in your head are starting to get swept out by those [...]
Nov 12 2009
(…put down Cleveland) I’d like to thank Jeremiah Peschka (twitter | web) for inviting me to speak at the Columbus SQL Server Users Group November meeting tonight. Through technical difficulties with Live Meeting (their end) and the oncoming symptoms of the flu (my end) I think it went off pretty well. The slide deck and queries [...]
