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 [...]
Feb 25 2013
How Does the Cloud Change a System Architect’s Job In which Microsoft’s Buck Woody (twitter|blog) concisely explains how Microsoft Azure will impact enterprise architectures in the very near future. (Oh, and he’ll be our Featured Speaker on SQL Cruise Alaska in May 2013 too if you’re interested in joining us. Buck will be hosting Career [...]
Feb 18 2013
Have A Windows Phone and are a Microsoft SQL Server Professional? Get This Free App David Ballantyne (twitter), who enlisted me to speak for the London SQL Server Users Group in 2012 pointed me to this new app that serves up KB Articles and support content from the MS SQL Support Team: click me to [...]
Jan 8 2013
It’s great that I can start the year off with proactively writing a post for #TSQLTuesday. Normally I find myself on the other side of the multitude of arbitrary deadlines I set for myself – getting things accomplished fast enough for others usually means I fail to meet my expectations. If it’s one point that [...]
Dec 4 2012
Let’s just say you should put some thought into it…
Oct 3 2012
Why a photo of my cats as a featured image in this post? It illustrates that different base ingredients (mommy cat, daddy cat, cat eggs, and cat sperm, catnip) can result in different outcomes as George and Kip show here. Data states that posts with photos of cats receive more traffic. It’s the Internet. They’re [...]
