Aug 29 2010
Considering the fact that I originally typed the title of this post as my 40th Birthday… you may gather that I am having issues with growing up. You’d be right, though you’d need to qualify the word “issues”. After the age of 21 I think we all start to look at aging differently. As kids, [...]
Aug 17 2010
Today marks the start of my second week on the job with a new company in almost 11 years. I severely underestimated what that means: new connection methods, new software, new communication tools, new naming conventions, processes, and workplace methodologies. Heck, I have yet to even get exposed to new personnel/HR policies – I was [...]
Jul 31 2010
Though my official last day at work is August 9th (exit interview, et. al.) My last day doing production work was yesterday. I am tethered to the on-call rotation until noon while my replacement returns from a trip to Italy. What the hell, I’ve never been to Italy! I’ve thought long and hard about how [...]
Jul 15 2010
<Cliché> Life works in mysterious ways </Cliché> <Cliché> All things happen for a reason </Cliché> However you slice it the last week has been quite a wild one for me and my family. It all came to be in the series of two emails received less than four hours apart from one another. The first was an email [...]
Jun 17 2010
I recently did a fun little interview with Chris Shaw (web|twitter) that was posted yesterday at sqlPerspectives. It came as part of a Guest Blogger stint I volunteered for a while back. Each week Chris is having a guest blogger review a chapter from the MVP Deep Dives book that was published in 2009. I volunteered [...]
Jun 15 2010
Someone lit the DBA Signal! If you’re reading this blog then you are well aware that last week was Tech-Ed 2010 in New Orleans. Typical of my history I start off with grand designs of blogging daily about the sessions and experiences I’ve had when travelling to events like Tech-Ed, PASS Summit, [...]
Jun 8 2010
My Magic On Whiteboard Greetings from New Orleans: where the air is thick with edumacation inside the convention center and just plain thick outside. I’ll confirm for you that this is the perfect place to hold a technical conference. No one wishes to go outside in this weather. As is usually the case [...]
May 3 2010
That’s right. We’re on a boat and Autotune is forbidden. So is Auto_Growth. But SQLCruise? What is SQLCruise? Is it a SQL Saturday afterparty? Is it a Tweet-up at sea? Is it a new training event unlike anything else that you’ve ever heard of? Kind of, sort of, and oh yes indeed! SQL Saturday [...]
