Three big things I look for in documentation: Who to call when it goes wrong Where to find it the code, especially if its in source control – can be hard to find when someone is in a hurry Standard steps for troubleshooting.
Read more "Job & Process Documentation Tips"If you currently serve or have served in our military, thank you for your service. Please never doubt that your efforts made a difference.
Read more "Veterans Day – Thank You for Your Service"Today I had on my list to finish watching the presentation Gail Shaw did at Summit 2014, one of the free recordings on PASS TV. I don’t remember it from before, but I was prompted to fill out a short demographic form. Ok, I get it. Then I get to the job function drop down […]
Read more "Did PASS Forget the DBA?"Here’s an excerpt from an email from PASS I received on November 4 and also available at this link (bolding added by me): The PASS BA Conference answers the call to meet the unique needs of business and data analysts, who are asked to do more with data every day. They are non-technical data professionals who work […]
Read more "More Thoughts on the PASS BAC"I was renewed for another year as a SQL Server – now Data Platform – MVP, always pleasant news. My plan for the new MVP year is pretty much the same as last year, I’ll try to out and about serving the Florida community, doing some mentoring, and contributing to PASS as I can. Below […]
Read more "Renewed as MVP"I’m late posting this, I wrote six questions after doing a refresh of what I knew (or should have known) about filetables: Backing Up to a Filetable Filetable and Non Transacted Access Filetable File Lengths Filetable Insert Triggers Filetable Trivia Nulls in the Filetable
Read more "New FileTable Questions Posted on SQLServerCentral"I’m still catching up after my 13th PASS Summit and as usual the longer I wait the shorter the notes will be, so I’m going to try to capture the biggest thoughts of my week: Storyville Coffee was very good. A little hard to find, but worth the trip I’m hoping video of the first […]
Read more "Notes on the 2015 PASS Summit"I’m flying out Sunday morning on my usual direct flight from Orlando to Seattle. I like getting there a day early so I can have a “slow day” and start to sync to local time and it gives me a good buffer in case the flight is delayed or cancelled. Sunday will be lunch, an […]
Read more "PASS Summit 2015 Plans"Forgot to post the next day and now missing details! Notes: Rained the entire drive up (and back) Not a bad drive for me, about 2 hours You know it’s a strange day when you turn left at Wackos to get there Location is a restaurant/bar/grill. Had to look twice, is this the right place? […]
Read more "Notes From the September 16, 2015 Jacksonville SQL User Group Meeting"We had a decent election this year. Thanks to all four candidates – Argenis Fernandez, Jen Stirrup, Ryan Adams, and Tim Ford – for participating, and congratulations to Jen, Ryan, and Tim for being elected. PASS surely can’t survive without volunteer leaders and it’s great to see that we continue inspire members to higher levels […]
Read more "Thoughts on the 2015 PASS Election"
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