Bill Graziano recently posted his thoughts on some proposed PASS bylaw changes. I’m not going to recap his thoughts here, he does a fine job of that on his own. I will, however, offer a few of my own. I have served on the board for two full years. In that time I have witnessed … Read more
Next week I will be attending my second MVP Summit. I wrote up a preview for the 2010 Summit last year, comparing it to the movie “Fight Club“. I was going to just rerun that post again for this preview but I wanted to find a new movie to use. Unfortunately, “Fight Club” is just … 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
Got a pleasant surprise from UPS today about an hour ago. First up, they didn’t leave my package out in the melting snow and water, which was a nice change. Second, it was a book written by my good friend and model blogger Denny Cherry (blog | @mrdenny). Why am I so excited about this … 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
This is a blog chainposting as part of the UNSQL Friday topic “Which SQL (or SQL-adjacent) tech companies are doing right, either by product, by promotions, or by people?” One day I found myself pouring through details about the uptime for our database servers. I am guessing I really had nothing better to do at … Read more
