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PASS Ponderings Part newsequentialid()

January 20, 2012 • Categories: Community, PASS • by

Everybody else is doing it and I’ve never been shy to share my thoughts on the organization I enjoy being a part of (PASS is not the SQL Community, What Should PASS be and Do?, If Pass Closed its Doors…) And my motive is typically a constructive one. I actually really am PASSionate about PASS. [...]

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2011 – A Look Back Professionally

January 2, 2012 • Categories: Community, metablogging, Personal • by

2011 was a year of changes for me professionally. It was a good year, I definitely didn’t do as many blog posts as I should have, though. Like I’ve talked about before in my sappy 2010 year end wrap up, sometimes you forget where you’re going if you don’t take a look back at where [...]

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A Global Crisis – With a Solution?

December 1, 2011 • Categories: Community • by

Do me a favor. Count to 45. I’ll wait…
 
 
… Ok, you can put your socks back on – there won’t be any more counting. According to most of the studies on world health, somewhere around 3 kids under the age of five just died in the time it took you to count because they didn’t [...]

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I’m Thankful For: A Vibrant Technology Community

November 24, 2011 • Categories: Community, MVP, PASS, Syndicate, Thanksgiving • by

I’m a SQL Server Blogger – how could a week of Thanksgiving posts go by without at least one about this thing that is the SQL Server Community? To recap – I’m doing a series of posts this week on things I’m thankful for – one each weekday. This has looked like:

Perspective – Why looking [...]

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PASS Summit 2011 – Birds of a Feather!

October 3, 2011 • Categories: Community, PASS, Syndicate • by

Howdy! The 2011 SQL PASS Summit is fast approaching. I’m happy to have been able to volunteer to help do some coordination of the Birds of a Feather lunch again this year (2010, 2009 topics). I am even more happy to announce the table hosts and table topics.
Going to the Summit? Well then check out [...]

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SQLRally FeedBack Received

June 2, 2011 • Categories: Community, PASS, speaking • by

I just got the feedback in from my SQL Rally presentation. I gave one presentation (well I took part in a couple other events and one other presentation but this was the only “all me” one that I was rated for) All in all I was pleased with my “performance”. This was the first time [...]

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Pragmatic Works Training Works!

May 31, 2011 • Categories: Book Review, Community, training • by

A few months back I attended the best technical training I’ve ever attended. I enjoy mentoring people, I enjoy teaching and I hope to begin doing more of it in the coming months and years now that I have my MCT and am working for a consultancy. I learned as much about teaching style and [...]

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