I may have found a solution to the Wi-Fi Problem. As with any great discovery the solution was apparent and not unfamiliar to anyone that has time-shared an airplane journey with leisure reading. An underlying complexity to the solution would be the selecting of quality reading materials. Wasting time on an unsuitable choice would be … Read more
“For sale, baby shoes, never worn.” I have no idea if Ernest Hemingway ever wrote those six words or not. Nobody else seems to know either. Those six words remind me of the power in short sentences. I’ve been blogging and writing for over ten years. If there is one common thread I have seen in … Read more
Two weeks ago I attended the first ever PASS Business Analytics Conference in Chicago. Attendees to the PASS Business Analytics conference were given a copy of Dr. Levitt’s book Super Freakonomics (co-written with Stephen Dubner). After the keynote Dr. Levitt made himself available for a book signing as well. Of course I had him mention bacon in my … Read more
If you are reading this blog there is a good chance you work in (or around) a formalized IT department. That also means you are on, or near, a sinking ship. Don’t believe me? Then do what I did and read The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Two … Read more
Earlier this year I wrote a blog series on the system tables available in SQL Azure. It was not long after that series was done that I was asked to be the technical reviewer for a book about SQL Azure. I jumped at the chance to learn even more about SQL Azure, because I know that … Read more
I’ve known Rob Collie (blog | @powerpivotpro) for over two years now, ever since he accosted me at TechEd in 2010. Since then we’ve met up at some SQL Saturdays, the 2010 PASS Summit, and we even collaborated on the computing power and hard dollar costs adjusted for inflation. And by “collaborated” I mean “I emailed Rob and … Read more
