PASS Summit 2010 Sessions Accepted

Excited to get the email yesterday that two of my sessions were accepted, Introduction to SQL Server Statistics and Building a Comprehensive Professional Development Plan. I’ve done both presentations before, but definitely still some practice to do prior to November. Looking forward to seeing the full and final schedule. Also saw my friend Don Gabor […]

SSC Editorial – Learning From Experts

Another story with a lesson today, this one about learning to work smarter and not just harder. Easy to say, harder to do! It’s one of the cases when having a great tutor/role model/coach can help you get there a lot faster than if you have to learn it all on your own (even if […]

MS Access Annoyance: Yes, Save the Password, Again

Here’s another quirk that has been there forever. Open up the linked table UI and select a handful of tables, like so: Note the save password box is checked. Click ok, and then you get this fun dialog after you enter your password, once for each table/view you selected. Seriously, we couldn’t get an intern […]

MS Access Annoyance: Doesn’t Link Synonyms

I use Access when I don’t have dedicated admin tools for editing data, frequently the case for infrequently changed data in smaller projects. Linked tables work reasonably well, just have to create a DSN first. Except…it doesn’t seem to work (at least obviously) for synonyms. Here’s one I created (viewing as sysadmin): And the view […]

The Breakfast Plan Goes Awry

Here’s the editorial for SSC today and while it’s a humorous story about asking for donuts and getting a free breakfast for everyone, it’s also a cautionary tale for those trying to do good as managers, and even for employees submitting suggestions. Looking back, I still think it was a fair suggestion in response to […]

PASS Update #35

It’s been a busy month for me for PASS activities. I spent almost the entire week last week on PASS related items and probably 60+ hours for the month: Reviewing the annual budget A call on SQLSaturday to work on plans for 2011 Tons of time on the Spring Event I won’t share much in […]

Growing the SQL Community – Carefully

If you’re a blogger or a twitterer or a SQL speaker or PASS volunteer, you do it because you have found it to be fun, worthwhile, even challenging perhaps. I bet you remember doubting the value before you started and hesitating to take the leap, and maybe you tried it because you had someone inspire […]

Building a PASS Voting Solution – Part 6

Today we’ll try to finish up by looking at a couple of the semi-interesting parts of the code in this one page application. We’ll start with the page load event. On the first run of the page (not postback) I’m grabbing the two keys I need if they exist and calling the MyBallot.Validate method (show […]

PASS Board Call For Nominations Open

Nominations opened today and will run through July 21st. Whether you’re planning to be a candidate or not, I hope you’ll visit the election page and review the documents posted. Those documents reflect a lot of time and effort from Hannes and a lot of others to try to improve the election process this year […]

Guest Editorial on SSC – Selling Used Cars/Experience Requires Repetition

I’ve been experimenting with stories in the editorial, experiences of my own that are amusing and have some kind of interesting lesson embedded. Stories can be interesting, uplifting, even tiresome, not sure at all where the boundary is yet, or if it can even be defined that way. The good part about stories (and life […]

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