Last Fall I was the Basketball Coach for SQL University, and I loved being back on the hardwood. Some days I think the best place to be on a Friday Night in the Winter is in your home gym getting ready to play some hoop. Writing for SQL U last FALL helped bring back some … Read more
Just over two years ago I helped put together the following poster that detailed some of the more useful system stored procedures found in SQL 2005: I have a handful of the posters laying around my cubical and my office at home. I suppose I should give them away whenever I am speaking, but I … Read more
Tomorrow I will be presenting at the first ever Hartford SQL Server Users Group. The title of the talk is Cloud Computing with SQL Azure, but only because I couldn’t pull together my first choice which was “Dora the Cloud Explorer”. Sorry, but I ran out of time on that because I’ve been a little … Read more
I am happy to write this semi-official announcement regarding the upcoming 24 Hours of PASS event to be held on May 19th and 20th. This is the second event of this type that PASS has put together and the first one that I have had the privilege to help pull together. I know that I … Read more
Last week, while at the PASS Board of Directors meeting, I became privy to some inside information on a merger of a user group organization with PASS. No, it isn’t the usual rumor involving the IOUG that gets mentioned a few times a year, and it isn’t something involving Sharepoint either. I’ve been dying to … 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
