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 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 [...]
Sep 13 2012
Each presenter I know has their own style for developing ideas, organizing their message, and delivering it. My only aim in this post is to explain my process and present the case for why I follow this new tack. I am not hear to cast derision on any others’ methods, style, and content. I’ve been [...]
Sep 4 2012
Welcome to Hell. It’s Beautiful and the Coffee is Terrible. Last month I enured the most grueling (physically and mentally) experience of my life to date with the possible exception of the experience of watching my youngest son languish in a hospital bed for almost six weeks back in 2011. I spent fourteen days with [...]
Jul 17 2012
Woke Early Fueled Up Let’s Go Backstory This month’s T/SQL Tuesday challenge was from Erin Stellato (blog|twitter) of SQLskills. She asked us to document a given day last week and then craft your post around what happened in order to provide an idea as to what a typical Day in the Life for a SQL [...]
Apr 19 2012
Tomorrow I’ll be packing up my youngest son, aka #SQLTrevor, and heading to the land of Milk and Honey Beer to present at SQL Saturday 118 being held in Madison. This is my first trip to Madison, but if it’s at all like just a portion of what I’ve heard it described as it sounds [...]
Jan 9 2012
Today marks the first day of a much needed vacation. It comes on the heels of a very successful SQL Saturday I was able to take part in at Colorado Springs, CO. Besides delivering a successful presentation for the locals of Colorado Springs, Denver, and the surrounding area I was able to help out a [...]
Dec 8 2011
That line is all about context. Am I saying there is no such thing as a good DBA? I hope not. I’m referring to the fact that a successful DBA is invisible to those users that unknowingly rely on him or her daily – as mythical as the Chupacabra, free love, and universal phone charger [...]
