I made a 700+ mile round trip down to Jacksonville FL where I was fortunate enough to get to speak about SQL Server. This was my third SQL Saturday to present at and my fifth SQL Saturday to attend. I should mention here that I am also now planning a SQL Saturday in Atlanta. At […]
SQL Community Support
I have blogged before about my appreciation for the SQL community mainly within the PASS organization as that is what I was most familiar with. I have been active with SQL Saturday, PASS Summit, and my local PASS Chapter for the past two years and have benefited greatly by the generosity of the SQL Community. […]
If you truly want to understand something try and change it.
I saw this quote on facebook last week and it really hit close to home. I had just started working on a request at work to produce a flat file from a database I support that was to replace a similar file being produced by another team. The other team was having to create a […]
SQL Saturday #70
This blog is long overdue about my journey to Columbia SC for SQL Saturday #70. I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to speak at this event and to be able to attend the speakers dinner. I had a great time getting to meet and spend time with so many SQL folks. Geoff Hiten, […]
SQL Saturday #62
I had the honor of traveling to Tampa Florida this past weekend and presenting a session to a great group of people. I first need to mention what a great job the facilitators did organizing this event. Jose Chinchilla (@sqljoe)and Pam Shaw (@PamShaw) are who I worked with the most but there were countless other […]
What PASS means to me.
I first heard of PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) in connection with the PASS Summit. I had a several co-workers who had attended the PASS Summit before. Several years later we had a local PASS Chapter started in my town and I started attending the meetings when I could. It was really great to […]
Checking Backups
Over the past two years I have acquired quite a few database servers that I am responsible for. We have many standards among the database group I am a part of, things such as standard drive configurations (drive for data files, log files, tempdb, and backup), lock down scripts, maintenance jobs, etc. Over time I […]
SQL Saturday 48 – Columbia SC
I had the opportunity to attend another SQL Saturday event and I am very happy that I didn’t let not feeling well stop me from driving over 600 miles round trip for the event. I met some awesome people and got to hear some great sessions. After three Powershell sessions I finally feel comfortable enough […]