Welcome to this week’s installment of SQL University. I am writing this while in transit to the 2011 MVP Summit. Thankfully (?) Delta could not get an airplane out of the hangar on time at MSP this morning, which led to my 3 hour layover in the Sky Club and several glasses of wine and [...]
PASS Bylaw Changes
Bill Graziano recently posted his thoughts on some proposed PASS bylaw changes. I’m not going to recap his thoughts here, he does a fine job of that on his own. I will, however, offer a few of my own.
I have served on the board for two full years. In that time I have witnessed what [...]
2011 MVP Summit Preview
Next week I will be attending my second MVP Summit. I wrote up a preview for the 2010 Summit last year, comparing it to the movie “Fight Club“. I was going to just rerun that post again for this preview but I wanted to find a new movie to use. Unfortunately, “Fight Club” is just [...]
SQL University – Professional Development Week
Welcome back to SQL University. The topic for discussion this week is Professional Development (PD), or as I like to call it, “the value you have and your boss doesn’t want you to know about”. OK, maybe not your boss, but trust me when I tell you that there are a lot of managers out [...]