Reminder: Orlando Code Camp Is This Weekend (March 22, 2014) and It’s Not Just For Developers!

I’ll be attending the Orlando Code Camp this weekend. I know it says “code”, but there is a SQL Server track. Jason Carter will be speaking, as will Kendal Van Dyke, Max Trinidad, Richie Rump, Robert Biddle, and myself. Thirteen tracks of learning! Even if you can’t stay all day I hope you’ll come over […]

Rodney Landrum Presenting at oPASS on March 20, 2014

Almost time for another meeting! This month Rodney Landrum is presenting Data Analytics and the DBA – Using PowerView to Uncover Interesting Facts About Your SQL Servers: DBAs do not always have time to work with some of the amazing visual data tools that are becoming common place now for analysts. In this presentation I […]

Some Notes On Writing A Question Of The Day

I wrote Write The Perfect Question (Of The Day) last week and yesterday dropped a note here about my latest question, Schema Renaming Fun. I’ve got a couple more in the pipeline (The Unusable User, and Alas Poor Snapshot, I Knew Him Well). Lessons learned/thought of so far: Make the case consistent on the queries, […]

Webinar Today at 3pm

I’m taking on a new topic today. Titled “ How to capture who did what in your SQL Server databases”, it’s a good overview of some of the techniques that can be used for auditing. Much like disaster recovery options, there is quite an assortment of auditing/logging options in SQL and just picking one (or […]

Schema & Renaming Fun

I wrote the SQLServerCentral question of the day that is live today called Schema & Renaming Fun. Mildly interesting, but looking back at it a couple weeks after writing it not my favorite – feels a bit convoluted. If you read the comments (after trying to answer the question!), you’ll see two places where I […]

Call For Speakers for SQLSaturday Houston (Before TechEd)

SQLSaturday returns to Houston this year, this time at San Jacinto College on May 10, 2014. That’s the Saturday just before Teched, so you can make a super week of it. I haven’t decided yet if I’ll attend, it turns out SQLSaturday Jacksonville is on the same day. Jacksonville is closer and has a Ted’s […]

Look At The SQLSaturday Orlando Home Page

One of the weaknesses of the current SQLSaturday tool set is that the front page isn’t strong by default. It does a lot of good work, but it’s not what I’d call great (and wow, is it better than v1 and v2!), but it does offset that weakness by allowing you to put in whatever […]

SQLSaturday #318 in Orlando on September 27, 2014

Number 8! Our eight annual SQLSaturday in Orlando is coming up on September 27th (note, it’s technically our tenth, but my friend Kendal Van Dyke says that #3 & #4 – the ‘tweener’ weekend – shouldn’t count!). Either way, I’m excited that it’s time to start the planning and the work for the event later […]

PASS, Evangelism, Goals, Dreams

The role of PASS in the community has evolved a lot over the past few years. Back in 2006/2007 PASS was mainly about the Summit and trying to grow new chapters, not a lot of emphasis on doing more for chapters and not much interest in a day based event like SQLSaturday. In those days […]

Write The Perfect Question (Of The Day)

Have you ever voted against something only to be glad later you got out voted? Too many years ago the idea of a question of the day for SQLServerCentral came up for discussion. I was against the idea not because it was a bad idea, but because it is one more thing to do every […]

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