I got an e-mail from someone at Microsoft congratulating me on my MVP award earlier today (during a pretty busy week of SQL Saturday preparations, ironically). I knew I was nominated but I had been a couple times before so wasn’t holding my breath – especially when I see the range of people around who [...]
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PASS Plan Potentials
In my blog post yesterday, I answered Andy Warren’s call to talk about where PASS can be improved by asking what would happen if PASS closed its doors. In the comments, Andy asked a good question, “On #1, I know what you mean but how would you implement it?” He was referring to my list [...]
If PASS Closed Its Doors…
One measure I have heard used to measure the effectiveness of a church goes along the lines of “If your church closed its doors tomorrow, would anyone notice?” I think that works for any civic organization, individual life where you want service to others to be a part of that and also membership organizations like [...]
SQL Saturday 71 – Now with BAM!!
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 [...]
SQL Saturday 60 Says Keep Speaking
So last week I told you to start speaking and presenting what you know. I may even have a taker in John Sansom who blogs about SQL Server and chats on twitter. Looking forward to seeing John (and you!) on a speaker list someday.
Well after having that series go up last week, I got a [...]
Vendors Doing It Right
This is my contribution to the Un-SQL Friday series that the Midnight DBAs do. This week they’ve asked us to talk about vendors that are doing it right in some way. I bumped into the post and hemmed and hawed awhile about submitting a post but I decided to go for it.
I’ll be honest [...]
On The 11th Day of SQL
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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