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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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I’m Thankful For: Self Employment

November 23, 2011 • Categories: Life Lessons, Personal, Professional Development, Syndicate, Thanksgiving • by

This is Thanksgiving week here in the US. This week, I am going to try and share a post each day about something I’m thankful for. So far I’ve shared how I’m thankful for:
Perspective – Why looking back at past challenges can make current ones seem, well, not that big.
Relationships – I am where I [...]

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Microsoft Loves Your Big Data

October 12, 2011 • Categories: Data, Hadoop, Syndicate • by

This week at the SQL PASS Summit, Ted Kummert – Corporate Vice President of the Business Platform Division at Microsoft (think SQL Server) made an announcement in Wednesday’s keynote presentation. It is an awesome announcement for companies who have “big data” (think semi structured or even unstructured large data sets. Think data that is perhaps [...]

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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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Can't give interference, only take it.

Relationship Advice From The FCC

July 27, 2011 • Categories: Life Lessons, Professional Development, Syndicate • by

I never thought a government agency would teach me a life lesson. That was until I had a long drive to a client site and pondered the FCC label you see on electronics, motors, and the like…
I was listening to my Zune Pass music in the truck driving to a client a couple [...]

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If You See Something, Say Something

June 6, 2011 • Categories: DisasterLessons, Learn From Mistakes, Life Lessons, Professional Development, Syndicate • by

I get to tell you an embarrassing story and I get to kick off a series of posts I’ve wanted to do for awhile now. Why? Because it’s “meme Monday” Check out Tom LaRock‘s post about the topic and the idea he came up with a couple months back.
This week Tom asked us to [...]

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On Feedback… And a Plea To Event Organizers

May 17, 2011 • Categories: Community, PASS, speaking, Syndicate • by

I really like presenting. I’ve blogged about some tips for others thinking about starting before. In those posts, I share how I started out terrified of speaking in public. One of the reasons I am enjoying it to date? Good feedback. Don’t read that as “positive” (though there has been more of that than I’ve [...]

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