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 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
It’s official, I will be presenting at SQL Saturday #39 on April 24th in New York City. My talk will be on SQL Server 2008 Audit and I am gearing it for people that are not familiar with that feature of SQL 2008. I’ve been to SQL Saturday’s before, I’ve been to Manhattan before, and … Read more
There has been a lot of blog chatter in the past week regarding the PASS Summit Survey. I won’t bother pointing you to each and every post and comment that has been made, as Jack Corbett has already done a great job of that. What I want to do is tell the PASS Community why … Read more
I’ll resist the rest of the quotes from A Few Good Men and instead go with these: “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” -Sun-tzu “It’s not personal, it’s business.” -Anthony Soprano Tales of corporate espionage abound these days. Fake Twitter accounts and Facebook fan pages are the latest rage, each designed to engage … Read more
