I managed to pick up some endorsements from two of the “liberal elite bloggers”, Brent Ozar and Grant Fritchey. I appreciate their kind words and wanted to make sure I dropped a quick “Thank You”. I was also mentioned by TJ Belt on his blog. Thanks guys, i know we can get through this upgrade. … Read more
Still no word from the nomination committee, I wish I had something to report. I have had an interesting conversation with Brent Ozar. He emailed me earlier this week and wanted to know what I was thinking when I applied. If I get on the ballot I will put our email exchange into a blog … Read more
I just put the finishing touches on a new custom monitor in Operations Manager. This monitor rolls up into the ‘Availability’ monitor for the SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 DB targets. The monitor will run a script that reads from the msdb database, joined to the master database. The idea is that we only want … Read more
As promised, I am letting you know some additional details about the PASS Board of Directors election. The full slate has not been announced yet, but should be done by this Thursday. Full details of the voting process can be found here. It looks like emails will not go out to the voting members until … Read more
Had my interview with the nominating committee yesterday. It lasted about forty-five minutes, and I thought it went well. I am not certain, but I believe there are about eight candidates right now. After the interviews are completed, the final candidates will be announced. Since the conference is less than two weeks away, I expect … Read more
Some good info in the latest Architectural Journal about cloud computing. I especially like the concern about how your train system could be late because of a strike. Apparently, such events are common in parts of Europe.
