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How did I get involved with this SQL Server thing?

by Mike Walsh on 09. Sep, 2009 in Personal, Pet Peeve, Syndicate

There is another quiz going around the SQL Server blogosphere. Great question again, “How did you get started with SQL Server?” I was tagged by Denis Gobo (Blog, Twitter) when he answered this question here. You can hit his blog to track the lineage of this one.
I have been working with SQL Server for just [...]

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SQL Quiz 4 – Leadership

by Mike Walsh on 20. Apr, 2009 in Life Lessons, Personal, Professional Development, Syndicate

Chris Shaw (Blog, Twitter) has started SQL Quiz #4 which asks for you to talk about a great example of leadership or a great leader. Many people have been tagged and  responded, including Jeremiah Peschka (Blog, Twitter) who jokingly offered to tag me in a twitter conversation. I told him not to bother but I [...]

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Dear Old Self, read these blogs…

by Mike Walsh on 13. Feb, 2009 in General, Professional Development, Syndicate

I just got back from a New England SQL Server Users Group meeting. Andy Leonard (twitter: @AndyLeonard, blog) gave a great presentation on Change Data Capture and SSIS 2008.
At the beginning of this week, I posted about things I wish I knew when I started. I tagged a couple people asking them the question and [...]

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Things you know now…

by Mike Walsh on 09. Feb, 2009 in General, Syndicate

When I wrote about empirical evidence and learning through trying (instead of asking only), I got thinking about things I wish I knew when I was a Junior DBA that I know now.
Rather than just keep those thoughts to myself, I figured I would write about them here and tag a couple folks to do [...]

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