Welcome to this week’s installment of SQL University. I am writing this while in transit to the 2011 MVP Summit. Thankfully (?) Delta could not get an airplane out of the hangar on time at MSP this morning, which led to my 3 hour layover in the Sky Club and several glasses of wine and … Read more
Welcome back to SQL University. The topic for discussion this week is Professional Development (PD), or as I like to call it, “the value you have and your boss doesn’t want you to know about”. OK, maybe not your boss, but trust me when I tell you that there are a lot of managers out … Read more
On Wednesday, February 23rd, at 2PM ET, I am going to be presenting a webinar for Confio. The webinar is titled ‘Server Consolidation for Rock Stars’ and here is the abstract: “The days of IT excess are over and more companies are looking towards server consolidation to maximize efficiency and reduce expenses. Sounds great, right? … Read more
We are four weeks away from the next 24 Hours of PASS event, and the registrations continue to mount. I have participated in all four 24 HoP to date and each one holds a special memory for me. But when all is said and done this coming event has the potential to be my favorite … Read more
Welcome back to SQL University, this week we are going to learn about data warehouses. I still remember the first time I saw what was described as a data warehouse. It was really just a bunch of excel spreadsheets shoved into SQL 2000 in a manner that allowed folks to run queries against and if … Read more
Back at the PASS 2010 Summit I got my freak on FreeCon invite and spent a few hours on Sunday afternoon with about 15 other people who wanted to get together and discuss ways we could get better at doing whatever it is that we do. Sound vague? Well, it was, but lunch was provided … Read more
