A Visit to Microsoft was posted back in August and I just re-read it. Here’s a quote that might interest you: As a working DBA I heard two things that seemed very positive (not counting the new features and improvements of course). One was that Microsoft sees the ability to offer both cloud and physical options […]
Read more "SSC Editorial: A Visit to Microsoft"Really late linking to it, Should I Stay or Go is about being more assertive about making the decision to change jobs or projects. It’s easy to decide to leave when things are terrible, much harder when it less than optimum – because most jobs are!
Read more "SSC Editorial: Should I Stay or Go?"Last week Karla Landrum announced that she will be leaving her position as Community Evangelist later this year after five years. That means change for PASS and for us and for Karla, but just the nature and scale of that pending change illustrates how much Karla has done in the those five years. Karla was the […]
Read more "Karla Set the Standard"I recently took the Strengthsfinder evaluation and thought I’d save the results here.
Read more "Strengthsfinder Results"I just donated $10 to Wikipedia. I use it and find it useful, so I don’t mind contributing so that it continues and improves.
Read more "$10 to Support Wikipedia Too"Sometime in the next couple weeks Rodney & Karla Landrum are moving from Orlando to Pensacola (home). I’m happy for them – going home is good! It’s funny how things work out sometimes. We’ve tried to work at having a plan in place to grow the next generation of leaders (which sometimes means just getting […]
Read more "Thanks to Rodney & Karla"The Problem Solver. Ever scoffed at personality types? Surely none of us are just one thing, but often we are mostly one thing, or at least one thing that is easily identified as being a big part of who we are. Writing this I was thinking about two things from the perspective of a manager: […]
Read more "SSC Editorial: The Problem Solver"When a new SQLSaturday event is launched an email is sent to all the speakers who have opted in to notifications for the region, basically saying “we hope you’ll speak at our event”. It’s lightweight and useful, and generally the only ‘send to all speakers’ message for that event, but with around a 100 events […]
Read more "SQLSaturday & The Speaker Wait List"David Pless is presenting: Query Store is a new feature in SQL Server 2016, and is also available in Azure SQL Database V12. Query Store is designed to help with query performance troubleshooting by making it easier to identify poorly performing statements and finding scenarios where performance regresses. In this session we will discuss how […]
Read more "oPASS & MagicPASS Meeting Tonight"Scott McKenzie was the DJ of Mix 105 here in Orlando for an astounding 24 years and that’s been the main station I listen to for about the same amount of time. Curiously I don’t know who was there before Scott. You know how it works, you scan stations until you find something you like […]
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