Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 12

Meetup.com did refund my $19, good! Team oPASS added SQLSaturday #318 to their calendar, you can see it here, or here’s a part of it: My previous post has the first flyer design, sent that out for feedback, and saw the second one was stalled waiting for feedback from me, so sent that […]

Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 11

Just received the first flyer design – thoughts?

Wishing For Error Messages That Are Good Search Terms

Here’s a SQL error you might get: not able to access the database “SomeDB” under the current security context. If you don’t know what the error means (and none of us will understand all the errors we see), you copy/paste it into the search engine of your choice and hope that the “someDB” part doesn’t […]

Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 10

My experiment with Meetup.com hasn’t worked out well so far. I set up the event site and sent it around to the group for discussion, but the next day I had an email from Meetup stating that the event didn’t meet their guidelines because it was a one time event. I modified the meet up […]

Writing A Question Of the Day–More Notes

One of the things I’m trying to do now is include a link to a blog(ger) in the explanation. That might be because they wrote something that inspired me to write a question (such as http://www.statisticsparser.com/) or because they wrote something that adds value to the topic, something over and above (or just better) than […]

An Sp_addrolemember Gotcha

Over the past few months there have been a handful of times when I had to fix a security problem by granting connect to the user. It wasn’t a big deal so I put it on the ‘figure out later’ list. Today it happened again and I had some time, so I took a deeper […]

Submitted My Application For the 2014 PASS Nominating Committee

I just finished up the short and not very painful application to be a candidate for the NomCom this year. Hoping there is a lot of competition for the seats, a good NomCom selection process is a great way to kick off election season.

Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 9

I’ve heard more than once that Meetup.com is a good way to reach new people so we’re looking at how to use it effectively and that’s not clear yet. The challenge is that Meetup feels like the destination rather than a pointer to the final event site. That makes sense for a lot of informal […]

Running Out of Foreign Keys-Question of the Day

Running Out of Foreign Keys is live today. Nothing too interesting about this one, a straight forward question where you know the answer or you don’t (though maybe with a few tempting answers for those that don’t quite know). Not as much fun to write these kinds of questions and this one of course is […]

Presenting at ONETUG on July 10, 2014

I’ll be presenting SQL Performance for Developers to the members of ONETUG on July 10, 2014. I’m going to hit all the basics of performance with a goal of showing the developer audience why things work they way they do. For example, I’ll explain why SELECT * is problematic and why database design matters – […]

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