I’m expecting Should Salary Information Be Confidential? to draw a wide range of comments. I’m curious to see if many will be fear based or if there are good reasons for keeping it a secret (aside from whatever legal constraints might exist). Look at it a different way. Imagine you interview and like the company, the salary/benefits […]
Read more "SSC Editorial: Should Salary Information Be Confidential?"Really late posting these, forgot to put on my task list! About 20 attendees Lots of good questions, and I saw quite a new faces (or not recent ones) attending. That’s good and bad I guess. I worry that we’re drawing people solely based on the topic/speaker and not because the meeting is the place […]
Read more "Notes From The May 2015 oPASS Meeting"It’s almost summer and that means it’s time for a trip to South Florida for SQLSaturday #379. I’ll be doing my presentation on Learning Plans, trying to meet the speakers I don’t know yet (quite a few), doing some learning of my own, and staying over until Sunday to enjoy a little time in Ft Lauderdale […]
Read more "Im Attending SQLSaturday #379 in South Florida on June 13, 2015"It’s been a while since I wrote a question of the day for SQLServerCentral. I wrote Pounds of Formatting Fun after running through the FORMAT function a few times as part of exam prep because it’s something I rarely(!) use. I’ll have to write more soon, crafting a good/useful question is fun.
Read more "New Question of the Day – Pounds of Formatting Fun"I attended the online Town Hall yesterday, the second one that PASS has held this year. The recording should be available soon (next week) for those that missed it. On to my thoughts: Bravo to PASS for continuing to do this. More communication, more channels, I like the trend. I think it’s tough/distracting to have […]
Read more "Notes on the May 27, 2015 PASS Town Hall"I’ll be returning to ONETUG just less than a year from my last presentation, delivering technical content and evangelizing for SQLSaturday Orlando. My goal on technical content is get them to see SQL Server as a really, really interesting piece of software written by developers and that can do amazing things if you know how […]
Read more "Presenting To The Orlando .Net Users Group on June 11, 2015"I’ve been busy with other stuff lately and haven’t been able to put much time into this yet, but capturing a few thoughts from the past couple weeks: I want to ask everyone else on the event team for their volunteer needs. Get them thinking of where volunteers can help. Then I need a bunch […]
Read more "Volunteer Strategy for SQLSaturday Orlando"I’ll be presenting Avoiding, Detecting, and Repairing Database Corruption and probably talking a little bit about career development during the warm up. If you’re in the Orlando area get all the details and register for the meeting at http://orlando.sqlpass.org/.
Read more "I'm Speaking at OPASS on May 28, 2015"I’ll start by saying the intent of the notes isn’t to complain, at least too much. I’m looking for opportunities. It looks far nicer than v1/v2, but the functionality shown still tends to be a page per table/entity. I look at the app and think we could easily do 2x as much to engage potential […]
Read more "Still More Notes on the SQLSaturday Web Site–Registration"A few things I had sitting in my draft folder: Privacy policy has not updated since May 2009. I’d like to see it updated and make sure it clearly addresses raffle tickets/sharing with sponsors, connection to the local group. I’d like to see SSL everywhere. No reason to not do this Reserving a date for […]
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