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 [...]
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’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 [...]
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 7 2012
For some reason I awoke this morning with the thoughts of Dirty Reads Bulk Inserts Heavy Workloads Big Data on my mind. I’m starting to wonder if SQL is NSFW. Perhaps it’s just the pants-free telecommuting catching up with me or maybe it’s just simply because it’s Friday. In honor of that, and [...]
