About a year ago I blogged on how I thought Chris Hansen would make a great DBA. A few people said they liked that blog post and I loved the idea of getting Chris Hansen involved but he has yet to return my phone calls, emails, or telepathic messages. Anyway, as I was assembling materials … Read more
During the 2008 PASS Summit I took part in a breakfast seminar on “Automating DBA Processes”. It was my first, and last, breakfast seminar that I have been asked to participate in so I can only imagine I offended somebody with my requests for more bacon to be brought to our table. I don’t recall … Read more
Last week I talked about creating a ‘customer advisory board’ that would be dedicated to help providing feedback to and from the PASS Board of Directors. Since that blog post went out I have had a handful of conversations about the idea, including about a 15 minute talk with the Board during our meetings earlier … Read more
I just knew I was going to coach college basketball. No doubt in my mind, I knew that I would be working the sideline on a Saturday afternoon somewhere. I also knew that most of the jobs went to people that were former players (regardless of coaching ability), or to people that were connected to … Read more
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 … Read more
…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 … Read more
