Hoping to find an everlasting Gob Stopper.
Last year I pined away reading all of the tweets from last year’s PASS.
It was cute, but I meant what I said. I made a promise to myself that I would go to PASS 2010. Well, last night I pulled the trigger and purchased my ticket to go [...]
Devin Knight, Wes Brown, and yours truly.
It’s 8:30am on SQL Saturday, and I feel like I’ve taken a two by four to the head. I’m standing outside the front of the building leading the registration team at the front tables, squinting in the sun, sweating profusely, and wondering why I feel so good about [...]
I took the plunge this year and started volunteering for the North Texas SQL Server User Group. Originally I started attending because I wanted to learn more about SQL Server, but it didn’t take long before I realized that there was so much more to be gained from being there.
Why should you volunteer with [...]
If you are a M2M Administrator, you should be studying SQL Server. I encourage anyone who works with M2M to study the SQL programming language, how SQL Server works, advanced reporting techniques, etc. In my opinion, if you don’t have at least a basic understanding of all things SQL, you cannot effectively administer M2M. [...]
I started this blog to help people learn more about M2M, SQL, and Crystal Reports. The reason was simple; I had to learn this stuff the hard way, by myself and essentially in a vacuum. I wanted to help anyone who found themselves in the same situation.
Since then, I’ve had a couple of people [...]
Fievel – An American Tail
All of the Tweeting about PASS prompted me to write this. Sung to the tune of “Somewhere Out There.”
Somewhere out there…
At the PASS Summit…
People are learning SQL and Tweeting about it.
Somewhere out there…
Ozar, Fritchey, and Delaney…
are teaching Clouds, Wait Stats, and High Availability.
And even though I know it’s about [...]
This past Saturday I attended the first of four days of SQL Server Development Training. The instructor, Mike Hotek literally wrote the book on SQL 2008 Database Development. A fellow M2M Administrator asked me why I bothered because we are not yet on SQL 2008 and I thought it would make a good blog post. [...]
I haven’t really ever asked my readership (all 3 of you) to do anything, but I’d like to do so now. Buy SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, a book about most aspects of SQL Server written entirely by Microsoft MVPs. From their site:
QL Server MVP Deep Dives brings together the world’s most [...]
Just a quick post to let anyone know who might care that I’ve been dragged kicking and screaming into the world of Twitter. Well, not kicking actually just kind of shuffling… and not screaming exactly… just kind of whining.. but I digress.
I am of course Made2Mentor on Twitter and if [...]
“Did you ever notice that other peoples stuff is crap, but your crap is Stuff?” George Carlin
Last year I came across an article with the same title on Jeff Atwood’s “The Coding Horror.”
Whether I am looking at Made2Manage or another vendor’s code or code created by a [...]
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