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SQLU DBA Week – DBA Progress Report

March 4, 2011 • Categories: DBA, Professional Development, SQLUniversity, Syndicate • by

This week was DBA Week At SQL University. We’ve seen two great posts from Robert Davis, a couple posts from me and some input from DBA Coach LaRock.
Today we’ll lighten things up. It’s Friday so let’s close our notebooks and have a classroom discussion about our attitudes and learning. There are all sorts of DBAs [...]

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SQLU DBA Week – Set It And….

March 2, 2011 • Categories: DBA, Pet Peeve, SQLUniversity, Syndicate • by

Welcome to the third day of DBA week at SQL University. On day one, I kicked off the “back to basics” journey I’ve chosen for fellow students with my post reminding you that you’re only as good as your ability to restore. Microsoft Certified Master Robert Davis brought us a good reminder on Day 2 [...]

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SQL Saturday 71 – Now with BAM!!

February 17, 2011 • Categories: Community, SQL Saturday, Syndicate, User Group • by

I am happy excited to be helping MVPs and fellow User Group Leaders Adam Machanic, Grant Fritchey and Tom LaRock plan a Saturday of free (unless you want to donate a totally optional $10 to help offset costs) learning for the Boston (and greater New England) SQL Server community.
The four of us have been actively [...]

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How Should I Present?

February 9, 2011 • Categories: Community, metablogging, Syndicate • by

While still borrowing from the titles for my series on why you should blog and some tips on how you could get started blogging I want to follow up to my earlier post on why should be speaking with some tips on how you can get started.
Hopefully you read the first post and have [...]

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Prepare For the Disaster Before The Disaster

December 27, 2010 • Categories: Best Practices, DBA, Life Lessons, Professional Development, Syndicate • by

Kind of like some previous common sense posts inspired by mundane tasks (Day Job Tips learned from the garden, a dump trip, etc.), I was hit with another blog thought today. This goes well with my post – Plan To Fail or Don’t Expect To Succeed.
Updated: Added a sound piece of advice in the bullet [...]

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On The 11th Day of SQL

December 23, 2010 • Categories: Community, Syndicate • by

What’s This?
Brent Ozar had another good Idea (I lost track of how many he’s had). This time it is to take the folks who attended the first free-con (his guinea pigs) and ask us what posts we enjoyed in 2010 from folks who weren’t at this first free-con gathering. We’d wrap up 12 of them [...]

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You Keep Using That Word – T-SQL Tuesday Entry

December 14, 2010 • Categories: Learn From Mistakes, Pet Peeve, Professional Development, Syndicate • by

Steve Jones is in the control room for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday challenge. His topic is a good one. I won’t repeat it here, just look at his post announcing this month’s topic. His topic is discussing challenges we’ve faced when dealing with “customers” (I use that to include clients, managers, colleagues, the business, etc.). [...]

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