Speaker dinner at Spaghetti Warehouse was packed. Great crowd, not such great service. At 8:45 pm we still had not had a chance to order dinner. With a crowd of 40+ its challenging to get a good venue that can handle the service and provide an environment conducive to networking. Event leaders, think hard about […]
Read more "Notes From SQLSaturday #273"I’m looking forward to the trip to Tampa for SQLSaturday #273 this weekend. I’m driving down this afternoon to beat traffic and have time for a break before going to the speaker party. I have one presentation on the schedule – PCI for the SQL DBA – and the rest of the day will be […]
Read more "SQLSaturday #273 In Tampa This Weekend"Live notes from the meeting. Attendance is low tonight, about 10 people (though it was well advertised, I got quite a few reminders – a good thing) Yesterday was Karla Landrum’s birthday! Met two new people (one was a sponsor, that sort of counts) Good coverage of upcoming events, would like to see more push […]
Read more "Notes From The February 2014 oPASS Meeting"Hopefully you got the email today from PASS containing these: Volunteer Goals Program Goals SQLSaturday Goals Reading them I’m first struck that we often see goals set, but rarely see the end of year scorecard published the same prominence. Which are real goals and which are stretch goals? Are there stretch goals, or are they […]
Read more "PASS Goals Published"Nothing better than finding a script that does something you need done and often done better than what you’d put together to just get it done right then. If you solve a problem consider publishing the script. Even if it has been done a dozen times, maybe there is something about your way that be […]
Read more "If You Plan to Publish A SQL Script–Some Suggestions"Today I watched DATAVIZ YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD NOT DO WITH SSRS by Jason Thomas. The intro felt long, but once the content started it was fun to watch someone do some nice tricks with Reporting Services as far as visualizing data. The focus was using the capabilities provided with Reporting Services in unusual (to […]
Read more "Learning About Reporting & Visualization"Amusing myself for a minute at Google Trends. Anyone missing 2005?
Read more "Interest In SQL Server Seems To Be Declining?"On Friday I was finally able to spend a couple hours looking at the Redgate Ecosystem, which is essentially a framework for building an SSMS add-in. In about 3 hours I was able to download the framework, take the sample solution and change it to run a script to generate a database snapshot of the […]
Read more "Building an SSMS Add-In Using Redgate Ecosystem"I’ll be at Code Camp Orlando on March 22, 2014 doing a presentation on storing credit cards in SQL Server (though a lot of what I’ll talk about applies to any database). Here is the SQL track: 9:00 AM – 9:50 AM 5 TSQL Commands I’ve been Missing – Jason Carter 10:00 AM – […]
Read more "Presenting at Code Camp Orlando"The schedule just went up, I’ll be presenting PCI for the SQL DBA this year. Looking forward to visiting Tampa again, and taking my kids to the nearby science center. Should be a good trip!
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