Tag Archives: Professional Development

SQLU DBA Week – DBA Progress Report

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 [...]

How Should I Present?

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 [...]

Why Should I Present?

I really enjoyed writing my “Why Blog?” Series last year. It was great to see a few bloggers start blogging after the couple posts and the video interviews I had with Brent Ozar.
Well now I have a new call for you – Present. Speak. Stand in front of strangers and teach them what you know.
I [...]

Snow Starting To Fall

Prepare For the Disaster Before The Disaster

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 [...]

My wife already told me - that is a big picture on the card...

Getting Organized – 451 Degrees, Good For Notebooks

[This is the 4th and final in a series of posts about "Getting Organized" using a better system and the Evernote tool-set for paperless notes (though you could do this with any such software).]
Getting Organized Series Outline

Introduction and License Giveaway
A Task’s Life
The Death of a Task, Man
451 Degrees – Good For Notebooks

Welcome to the final [...]

Almost Done!

Getting Organized – The Death of a Task, Man

Almost Done!
Not enough focus time that day, I guess.Almost Done!
Not enough focus time that day, I guess.

Yeah.. It's a mac - my first

Getting Organized – Goodbye Paper?

[This is the first in a 4 part series of posts about "Getting Organized" , on track and my use of Evernote.]
Getting Organized Series Outline

Introduction and License Giveaway
A Task’s Life
The Death of a Task, Man
451 Degrees – Good For Notebooks

Do you struggle with organization? Note taking? Note Finding? I do and I could have found [...]