We’ve tried to move away from shirts as a speaker gift, most speakers have them so we only get them if it’s a brand new speaker or someone needs a new shirt. Last time here in Orlando we came up with some nice leather business card holders with the SQLSaturday Orlando logo embossed. This year […]
Read more "Speaker Gift for SQLSaturday #49"NPR Baseball Driveway Moments ($15 @ Amazon) is an audio book I got from the local library to listen to on a long drive. It’s a series of short stories and interviews; some that are funny, some interesting, and some a little sad. A great interview with Yogi Berra and you get a sense of […]
Read more "Review: NPR Baseball Driveway Moments"I had a question recently about how budgets work at PASS, and I think that’s something worth sharing, so I’m going to write an overview of that process today. Note that I’m not the Finance guy, so the “official” word gets published elsewhere, and for that reason I’m not quoting numbers, just talking about process […]
Read more "PASS Update #44 (Budget)"Great title for a post, isn’t it? Seems foolish, lazy, or worse to plan for failure, right? Yet, in the real world, stuff fails all the time. Sometimes we could have done more, sometimes we can’t afford to do more, sometimes it’s just the way things are. As DBA’s we’re usually thinking about backups and […]
Read more "Planning to Fail"I found The Literacy Project at Google after seeing a local op-ed piece about literacy. I love to read, a skill and passion that my parents contributed to by providing books, taking me to the library, and reading a lot themselves. It’s hard to imagine what my life would be without books, without being able […]
Read more "Literacy & Teaching"Not often I do plugs here, but then again, it’s rare that I just get first class service, so read on if you might ever need an attorney in Florida. I met Chris four years ago when it was time to sell our business. Some things you can DIY it on, selling a business across […]
Read more "My Favorite Attorney – Chris D’Amico"If you haven’t used it (and I rarely do myself), Ident_Current (‘tablename’) returns the last identity value generated across all sessions. It’s something to use carefully, and not fall into the trap of thinking that if Ident_Current = 2 and you insert a row that the value will be 3 – someone could have inserted […]
Read more "A Surprising Result from Ident_Current"See my previous post on the topic,or just go directly to the application.The application has full details, but MVP’s, Summit presenters, and anyone that has delivered full day classes are within the range of people we’ll consider. We’re hoping for a great variety to pick from, and with luck, you’ll be a seminar presenter at […]
Read more "Reminder – Deadline for SQLRally Pre-Con Abstracts is October 15th"I wrote the editorial about great service after noticing a couple small but interesting customer service experiences during two trips. I’ve continued to think about it since writing it. It’s an obvious win, but not an easy win, or even obvious on how do achieve the win. How we figure that out? Maybe not complete, […]
Read more "SSC Editorial – Great Service"The SQLRally marketing team put this flyer together last week. We’ll be trying to get Chapters and SQLSaturdays to link to the flyer and we’ll also be sending out some copies to distribute as well. The link is to the color version, we have a B&W version but through the magic of technology it’s bigger […]
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