I recently did an interview with Blythe Morrow from PASS HQ and decided to do my next interview with a veteran of the PASS Board of Directors, Rick Heiges. Rick is currently a Senior Solutions Consultant with Scalability Experts, working with customers on solutions within the SQL Server environment. He speaks at user groups, conferences, … Read more
The question for this week comes from the psychological exam I took during my three day interview with the NSA. At one point they put me in a room for a few hours and asked me countless questions to determine my profile. It was enlightening to say the very least. The questions were in a … Read more
You may or may not have heard already that the deadline for submitting your abstracts to the PASS Community Summit has been extended. Well, it’s true, the deadline has been pushed back. And I know there was some speculation by some members of the community as to why we would want to push the deadline … Read more
Well, I have managed to make it through one full week as an MVP without upsetting anyone. Well, not anyone inside the MVP program at least. And I decided that it was about time to expose the MVP’s for what they really are: people. Turns out that MVP’s have questions, just like the rest of … Read more
Every now and then I see requests come to our team that say “hey, buddy, when was the last time that database was restored?” My first thought has been, historically, “how the hell am I supposed to know that?” After all, the management tools given to us (EM, SSMS) never list a “last restore date” … Read more
I remember how I used to promise myself that if I ever got elected to the PASS Board of Directors I would do everything I could to make my activities as transparent as possible. One such way would be to write about some of the finer details on my blog. While I doubt anyone would … Read more
