Earlier this year, I finally passed the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for SQL Server 2008 certification. In the process of preparing for the MCM lab portion, I did a lot of studying. One of the my key resources, were the MCM Readiness Videos that SQLSkills put together a couple years back. The thing is, even if … Continue reading 5 MCM Readiness Indexing Videos You Should Watch
Over the last few days, you may have noticed that there’s been a bit of talk about a SQL Server MCM Study Group. In fact, Robert Davis (Blog | @SQLSoldier) tweeted about it the other day when he provided some sample corrupt databases. You may be wondering, what is this study group on yammer? Let’s … Continue reading SQL MCM Study Group
Since I’ve been blogging about my progress through the SQL Server MCM certification, it makes sense to follow-up with my latest failure. If you’re new to these posts, check out my posts on failing, retaking, and then passing the SQL Server MCM Knowledge exam. Took the Lab A couple weeks back, after some prodding from … Continue reading Not. Quite. There. This Time I Failed the Lab
I’ve been counting down the days until I get the score from my second attempt at the SQL Server MCM written exam. When I last took it, I knew there were some areas that I didn’t know the answers. But for the vast majority of the exam I felt good. In fact, I felt that … Continue reading MCM: To pass, or not to pass
Yesterday, I went in for my re-take of the MCM written exam. If you recall, I failed the exam last time. I did a great job of failing, in fact, and only received a 522 on the exam. I didn’t share my score previously because it was a bit embarrassing. And honestly, I wasn’t sure … Continue reading MCM Exam – Take 2
Week five and it seems like time is going by faster than I had expected it would. As I mentioned in the first post, I've already failed this exam once and am not really up for failing again. This week our MCM study group has decided to read the following items and discuss them at … Continue reading MCM Live Blog – Week January 10
Surprisingly it's now my fourth week of blogging about the things that I'm doing to study for the MCM exam. The holidays are finally over. Client deployments are theoretically over. Now I am hoping to button down and get to some real hardcore studying. As I mentioned in the first post, I've already failed this … Continue reading MCM Live Blog – Week January 3
Time for the third week of blogging about the things that I'm doing to study for the MCM exam. Last week wasn't too spectacular - with the holidays and all I was pretty lazy on the studying. The formatting issues did get fixed, so if you see anything messed up send me a message. As … Continue reading MCM Live Blog – Week December 27
Time for the second week of blogging about the things that I'm doing to study for the MCM exam. It seemed to go pretty good last week except for the whole screwing up the TweetMeme and ShareThis plugins on my blog. As I mentioned in the first post, I've already failed this exam once and am … Continue reading MCM Live Blog – Week December 20
If you're reading this, it must be Monday morning. Oh dear, that means I am officially starting my public studying for the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) exam. I've already failed this exam once and am not really up for failing again. To help prevent this, I figured studying through my blog and noting the things … Continue reading MCM Live Blog – Week December 13
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