My latest question is live today – Can’t See The Forest For the Logins is worth 2 points if you’re playing for score. It’s another question where you have to infer some to get the answer. So far it’s proving to be a tough question, be sure to read the comments after you try it. […]
Read more "Can’t See The Forest For the Logins–Question of the Day"If my blog history is correct the last time I presented at oPASS was January 2012 – that seems like a long time ago! I’ll be back at oPASS in April doing two presentations (to make up for missing 2013!): Building A Learning Plan What should you learn next? How do you decide which topic […]
Read more "Speaking at OPASS – April 2014"My latest question The Unusable User is live today over at SQLServerCentral. It’s a three pointer, how is that for an incentive to give it a try? Here are the early stats, it’s definitely a hard question (or badly written? nah): I’ll post follow up on thoughts on this one later in the […]
Read more "The Unusable User–Question Of The Day"Nice to have a SQL track! Looked like it averaged 20-25 attendance per session. Ran smooth, thanks to Esteban Garcia and the volunteers from ONETUG Had a couple great conversations about PCI and security after my presentation Ran into quite a few people I know on the code side, reminds me I need to crossover […]
Read more "Notes From the Orlando Code Camp"Rodney Landrum presenting Lots of free form demos, very light on slides – nice change Looked at Power Pivot, Power Query, and Power Map Pivot vs Query is confusing, when to use what? Query seems to support more data sources Nice demo of pulling in SQLSaturday upcoming events from web page, using a very nice […]
Read more "Notes From the March 2014 oPASS Meeting"Got the email confirmation yesterday that I’m on the schedule – looking forward to being back in Jacksonville.
Read more "Speaking At SQLSaturday #298 in Jacksonville on May 10, 2014"Hopefully you had a chance to answer the Alas Poor Snapshot, I Knew Him Well question of the day than ran yesterday. Overall the comments on the question were positive, it was interesting (and intuitive I guess) to see that the detailed explanation of all the answers was appreciated. So far about 900 people have […]
Read more "More On Alas Snapshot"If you’ve followed my writing for a while you’ll know I’m a fan of translucency (transparency) in most things business. Right now I’m working next to a meeting room that has glass walls – talk about transparency! It seems like a good idea, it lets in a lot of light and makes it feel more […]
Read more "Meetings In Glass Houses"My latest question of the day is up, this one called Alas, Poor Snapshot, I Knew Him Well. If you’ve got 5 minutes go give it a try and let me know what you think, with comments on the question or here.
Read more "Alas, Poor Snapshot, I Knew Him Well (Question Of the Day)"I’ve been thinking for a while about what to submit for this year. I knew I wanted to have one be about PCI and security because I enjoy the topic and have some experience I’d like to share. Career planning is always interesting to me. As is mentoring, networking, SQLSaturday, writing, and a few more […]
Read more "Submitting PASS Summit Sessions"
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