I know what you are thinking. You are sitting there, reading this blog post and saying to yourself “Wait a minute, there *is* no SQL Server user group in Hartford!”
Well, up until about a week ago, you would be right. But come April 7th we will be having the inaugural meeting of a brand new [...]
I Stand Corrected
The other day Aaron Bertrand pointed out that a recent tip I wrote had a rather nasty oversight. You can read more about the discussion over at his blog.
The short of it is this: what I wrote in the tip is cot very clear, and is most likely going to be interpreted wrongly. Aaron’s post [...]
Heading to Hollywood
…would be a slightly misleading title to this post. After all, there are at least five states with a town or city named ‘Hollywood’, so how do you know where I will be? Well, I’ll tell you, that’s how.
Starting Monday morning I will be in Hollywood, Florida, for a meeting of the PASS Board of [...]
Presenting at SQL Saturday #39
It’s official, I will be presenting at SQL Saturday #39 on April 24th in New York City. My talk will be on SQL Server 2008 Audit and I am gearing it for people that are not familiar with that feature of SQL 2008.
I’ve been to SQL Saturday’s before, I’ve been to Manhattan before, and I’ve [...]
Forewords for DBA Survivor
I wanted to give a big thanks to Kevin Kline (blog | twitter) and Buck Woody (blog | twitter) for writing the forewords to my book. I put them on their own page at http://dbasurvivor.com, as well as posted a blog entry for them.
I’m not sure I could ever thank them for taking the [...]
My Book Has Arrived!
Today I got home and found a package on the steps…in the rain. The box was addressed to me, had yellow police tape across the top, and a green sticker that said ‘AUTHORS COPIES’.
I brought the box into the house and eventually opened it. You can get more of an idea how I felt by [...]