I was reminded of this when I got a nice email from the SQLSaturday Tampa team letting me know that I had been selected, though it would still be some time before they decided which of my sessions would go on the schedule. This is a great courtesy to a speaker. It allows me to […]
Read more "SQLSaturday Events Leaders – Notify Speakers of Selection As Soon As You Can"Proxies and web content filtering are common, maybe even required, but it can be annoying, and sometimes you need to test to see if the proxy is the problem. Usually you can change this via the Connections tab in IE, but I ran into a case where it was gone, doubtless turned off by some […]
Read more "Disable the IE Proxy, At Least in IE9"If you have a central management server set up, or a similar way to run a query against a list, the query below will identify those that are using NTLM instead of Kerberos (or just run on each instance individually). Not necessarily a big deal depending on what you’re doing, but sometimes being able to double […]
Read more "Finding Instances That Aren’t Using Kerberos"I was thinking about Sri today as I volunteered for a task at SQLSaturday Tampa on the new PASS volunteer sign up page. That was part of what he worked on during his two year term and while it may seem like an obvious feature and function, it was only this last year that it […]
Read more "Thanks To Sri Sridharan For Serving on the PASS Board"Maybe I knew this and had to relearn it, but was momentarily stumped when I needed to do some quick clean up and started to use the replace function. The syntax for it seemed strange: Turns out what I needed was Substitute. Here’s what the help page says: Substitutes new_text for old_text in […]
Read more "Excel Substitute and Replace"The tenth annual Orlando Code Camp will be held on March 28, 2015, at Seminole State College. The call for speakers is open through January 25th. I’m planning to attend and will submit a session, but will delay on that just a bit as we try to figure out how to build the best possible […]
Read more "Call For Speakers for Orlando Code Camp 2015"Earlier this week I posted How To Improve The PASS Connector in response to a general request for feedback about the Connector on Twitter. I had been accruing some notes based on my initial efforts on the PASSWatch blog and I used some of that as the source of the Connector suggestions, but I have […]
Read more "Suggestions for PASS: Transparency & Communication"I’m writing this on Monday as I’ve been thinking about the year and what I’d like to do next year. More than ever I appreciate that plans and lists are important, but so is the ability and willingness to adapt as things change, A once a quarter plan/review has worked reasonably well for me. I […]
Read more "Closing Out 2014"I saw this tweet this morning: The Connector is the primary way PASS communicates with the membership, improving it in any way is certainly worth doing. I’m posting my ideas here because it’s noisy on Twitter and it’s a different channel, maybe some of you will see this and submit your own ideas. […]
Read more "How To Improve The PASS Connector"As someone who lives the data world I know that we work hard at protecting certain types of data more than others. PII, PCI, HIPPA, they all get extra attention, or perhaps the “other” data just gets less attention. We think of the worst case as a breach that leads to millions of credit cards […]
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