Trusts Are Transitive

If you’ve done networking in the MS world you know about the trust options between domains, and one of the nice features of Windows Server are transitive trusts. If A trusts B and B trusts C, then A trusts C. Technical stuff, but I want to talk about the other kind of network, the people […]

Knowing Someone Makes a Difference-Part 2

How long does it take you to get comfortable at a new job. How long to figure out who is who, find someone people to have lunch with, and feel like you’re fitting in? Consultants do better at this that employees simply because they go into new situations a lot more often, but also because […]

Knowing Someone Makes a Difference-Part 1

I’ve put a lot more emphasis on networking in the last few years and I’ve always considered it an investment, the kind of investment that you think will pay off but has no guarantee. It’s not a certificate of deposit type investment. Does it pay off? How often does knowing someone make a difference? As […]

A Big Milestone-SQLSaturday #100

Just announced yesterday, SQLSaturday #100 will be held in Brazil on November 26, 2011. Just a little over four years since we started the planning for #1 in Orlando, it seems like both a long time and not very long at all. A lot of people have volunteered a lot of time to get to […]

PASS Update #60

I’ve written a lot here, but for June & July (and part of August) I’m trying to just keep the ship moving (my part of it at least) while I recharge. I still manage to have a few things going on, so here is the 60th update on my efforts as I hit 2.5 years […]

Android Game: Slice-It

2011-07-04 12:22:00

Profiled on SQLPeople

I’m late posting it, but I was featured on SQLPeople for June 27th. It’s a project Andy Leonard has going on and it’s interesting indeed to see the similarities and differences from those of that work with SQL Server.

Denali on TechNet Radio

A quick plug for my friend Blain Barton from Microsoft, he’s got a series of three broadcasts that are video, but done in radio interview format. Worth a look.

Subtle Errors When Using Dates-Part 2

It’s so easy to make make mistakes with dates. Here is another one I saw recently, this one used when doing some checks on some billable data that had been captured: select * from sometable where somedate between ‘6/1/2011’ and ‘7/1/2011’ Nine times out of ten when you see that statement what they meant was: […]

SQLSaturday Round Table at the PASS Summit (Early Reminder)

Once again this year we’ll be holding a meeting open to all SQLSaturday event leaders and key team members (and space permitting, we’ll also welcome SQLSaturday volunteers at any level). Karla from PASS HQ will be sending out invitations in the next couple weeks, but for now wanted to get it published as early as […]