Notes From SQLSaturday #298

The trip didn’t start smoothly for this one. Wed night I was really sick with some kind of stomach flu. I was able to crawl out of bed mid morning on Thursday to work and Thursday afternoon didn’t feel too bad. Thursday night was truly miserable so I slept until noon on Friday and was […]

Off to Jacksonville for SQLSaturday #298

I’m looking forward to returning to Jacksonville after missing a year (or two?) to speak at SQLSaturday #298. I’m driving up with my family this afternoon to beat traffic and go to the volunteer dinner, then I’ll be at the event all day tomorrow. If you’re in/near Jacksonville I hope you’ll attend (and say hello […]

Speaking at MagicPASS on May 28, 2014

If you’re wondering who the mystery speaker is – it’s me! I’ll be doing two presentations at Magic Pass on May 28, one about credit card security and one about learning plans. All the details at http://magicpass.sqlpass.org/ (or soon will be anyway). If you’re in the Orlando area I hope you’ll attend.

Another User Has Locked My File!

I had an SSIS package fail in a script task this morning. As part of the why process I opened up one of the files it was processing and got this message: I get the idea and I’ll hunt around to find what has it open, but I’m bemused at ‘another user’ which […]

Datatypes In Your Mind–Question Of The Day

My latest question Datatypes In Your Mind is live today and it’s generated quite the discussion. I wrote here about writing the question. I think my mistake was not writing the wrong answer explanations. Had I done that maybe I would have caught an assumption I made that lead to the discussion. Lesson learned, at […]

SQLServerCentral Editorial: Better, Faster, and Cheaper

Better, Faster, and Cheaper was published today and I hope you’ll read it, and then challenge your own assumptions for a minute. Is it always 2 of the 3? This was hard to write because I struggled for a good example. In the end my example is both contrived and twists the definition some – […]

Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 6 (Seminars)

Seminars (aka “pre-cons”) have been part of the DNA of SQLSaturday going back to #1. For those that weren’t there we started off with Joe Celko doing our first one and it went really well. I think we sold it at $99, included his latest book and lunch, and had about 70 paying attendees. That […]

Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 5

More notes, many from a chat with Kendal. We wish we could see the open rate on email and an easy way to do A/B testing. The emailer in the site (mine, or a derivative maybe) was just built to send a lot of email, no bells and whistles. Would the open rate help? Don’t […]

Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 4

I spent some more time last night thinking about the event and marketing it. Biased I am, but I think the event has a great value proposition and doesn’t require “selling” except to first timers (seminars are different). We seem to do pretty well at getting first timers to attend, so it worth extra effort […]

Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 3

Not to short change fund raising, but the toughest goal to meet for this year is registration/attendance if we’re going to hit our 20% growth target. No, it’s not all about numbers, but our stance is that we’d like to deliver as much learning as possible – both to do good and to leverage our […]

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