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Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die – A Review

Having trouble getting your ideas accepted? I read a book that can help you. You can read the review or just go out and get the book, I recommend it. “Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die.” There is a link ‘below the fold.’
Yes, some readers got what they needed from the [...]

StraightPath Solutions – A Year in Review

As we approach the end of 2009,  I want to give myself a review on where I have been, what I have done and where I can grow next year from a SQL Server consultant point of view.
Part Time – Enough Time For Fun
As I have posted before and explain on the about us or [...]

For Unto Us a Child Is Born

Merry Christmas!
StraightPath Solutions wishes you and your family a blessed Christmas season and a safe New Years celebration. I won’t have any other posts this week and will have a couple end of year wrap up posts next week, back to regular posting in January. I hope you enjoy the joy that this season has [...]

Blogging Tips Interview

Blogging Tips Interview With Brent Ozar

Welcome to the final post in my series on metablogging topics. We started with a post on my site called “Why Should I Blog?“, which went live the same time as the first part of the below video interview with Brent Ozar. That first video interview went live on Brent Ozar’s Blog.The text series finished [...]

How Should I Blog?

Welcome to Part 2 of our walk through some “metablogging” topics. In the first part (Why Should I Blog?, we covered some of the basics from my experience with a year of blogging done. The main goal was to encourage you to share in a blog if it’s something you have been considering. Part 0 [...]

Why Should I Blog?

Are you curious why I spend the time blogging? In this post, I’ll share my motivation for blogging and suggest why you should. The series includes tips and tricks along with a couple video interviews with Brent Ozar and myself.

T-SQL Tuesday #001 – Dates and Time

Adam Machanic, who blogs at SQLBlog.com (lots of great sql bloggers over there) started a neat tradition: T-SQL Tuesday. Read his post here to see the rules and information but it’s basically a weekly (2nd Tuesday of each month) blog topic where we can all have a post about the same topic. I like this [...]