During a recent conversation with a few fellow bloggers, the conversation turned to how we each got started with blogging and social media platforms. This led to a whole slew of questions: Why do other people blog? How do some bloggers keep up with publishing? What do you people use their social media platforms for? … Continue reading The #Meme15 On Social Networking
Welcome to the third of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99. After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog | @ArnieRowland) Paying For Free post, I thought it might be worthwhile to do a little bit more to interview our attendees and others to the sponsors that enabled us to have our Minnesota event. For … Continue reading SQL Saturday 99 – Data Education
The new year is just around the corner. And before you know it, we’ll have an opportunity to start moving SQL Server 2012 into production. While we anxiously await that day, it is a good idea to make sure that you are up on the latest T-SQL enhancements that are coming in the next release. … Continue reading December AppDev Webcast
Welcome to the third of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99. After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog | @ArnieRowland) Paying For Free post, I thought it might be worthwhile to do a little bit more to interview our attendees and others to the sponsors that enabled us to have our Minnesota event. This … Continue reading SQL Saturday 99 – RBA Consulting Interview
This month for #MemeMonday, Thomas LaRock (Blog | @SQLRockstar) has assigned a topic with a holiday bend to it. The question for today is “What gift we want from Microsoft to be left under the tree?” Some Ideas That’s a bit of a hard one. For starters, I could ask for one of those delayed … Continue reading December #MemeMonday
It's the first Monday of the December, and it's time to do a monthly checkup. As previously mentioned, the premise of this post is to help DBAs maintain their environments by getting together a monthly checklist and running through it every month. Now, if you were paying attention last month, you would have noticed that … Continue reading December Monthly SQL Server Checklist
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have had a chance to see. Also a chance to bring back to the forefront posts that some may have seen but forgot about. If you have some free time or interest, … Continue reading Re-blog – November 25 – December 1
Welcome to the second of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99. After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog | @ArnieRowland) Paying For Free post, I thought it might be worthwhile to do a little bit more to interview our attendees and others to the sponsors that enabled us to have our Minnesota event. This … Continue reading SQL Saturday 99 – Digineer Interview
I’m probably going to have to put together a new SQL video, because I’ve been accepted to speak at SQL Saturday #104. The e-mail came in last night and it appears I have two sessions for the event. Enough about those for the moment, let’s talk about the upcoming event. SQL Saturday 104 To start … Continue reading Speaking in Colorado Springs
SQL Server 2012 is coming to 12 cities next year. Is your city on the list? It can be – or could be – take a few minutes to complete the survey at http://www.specialopstour.com and you will help determine where the tour will be heading. Personally, I hope everyone puts in Minneapolis, MN – but … Continue reading SQL Server Special Ops
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