Rules to Live By: Be Worthy of Trust

I struggled with the title for this one. One of the thoughts I had was that I believe in being a man of my word. If I can say I’m going to do something, I most likely will, and if I shake hands on it, for me that’s as binding as any contract I’ll ever […]

LiveMeeting is Still Harder Than Live Meetings!

On Thursday I presented ‘Building a Comprehensive Professional Development Plan’ to the PASS Professional Development Chapter (#PASSProfDev on Twitter) via LiveMeeting. It was my first time giving it to a real audience, rehearsed several times trying to get the pace and content reasonably set – first time presentations always hard, trying to get the right […]

Thoughts on Leadership

A friend is moving into a leadership role for the first time and we talked some about making that transition. Here’s a guy with tons of skills and life experience, taking on a new challenge and totally out of his comfort zone, what advice to offer? Here’s my try at it. There are a lot […]

Upgrading to SQL 2008 R2

Had this on my list todo list, upgrade my laptop that just had plain old SQL 2008 on it. The first part of the install went smooth until it got to the rule checks and then an error related to : Luckily I wasn’t the first person to get the Sql2005SsmsExpressFacet error. The first search […]

Attending TechEd 2010

It’s been a couple years since I’ve attended and always found Teched to be a great event, more content than you can possibly consume and first class treatment (or as close as you can get with 10k or so attendees). Didn’t plan to go this year as I’ve been trying to cut back on travel, […]

Minutes of the April 2010 PASS Board Meeting Published

This was a phone meeting on April 8th, 2010, that covered: Possibility of an online track at the 2010 PASS Summit Discussion of changes to by-laws (term limits and others) Possible formats of Spring 2011 event (East coast) You can read the full minutes here (login required): http://www.sqlpass.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=WPcw5oAuEA0%3d&tabid=118 We have a meeting on May 13th […]

Minutes of the February 2010 Board Meeting Posted

Strangely we’ve had the March minutes up for many weeks, but just now getting the February minutes posted. This was the meeting where we discussed the 2011 Summit location. There was a second meeting in February that covered SQLSaturday and adding additional staff. http://www.sqlpass.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=BDY8b_A7AD4%3d&tabid=118 http://www.sqlpass.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=saMkY5RvGrk%3d&tabid=118 I urge you to read them – be a good […]

Notes from the May 6th, 2010 oPASS Meeting

We moved to Thursday this month to line things up so that Dean Richards from Confio could do a presentation to our group and then head to Jacksonville for SQLSaturday #38. Attendance was good, about 30, for the presentation on wait state analysis. Jack started the meeting off with the standard intro discussion and as […]

SQLSaturday Summit at the PASS Summit

Now that we’ve moved SQLSaturday to PASS and we’re seeing some really nice growth in the number of events, I think it makes sense to gather all the thinkers, doers, and dreamers that got us this far and figure out where to go next. With that in mind, I’ve asked for space to seat 100 […]

Notes on SQLSaturday #38

Started Friday by picking up the shirts for the event in Orlando, then heading to Jacksonville with the family, getting there in time for my almost annual tradition of a bison burger and iced tea for a long lunch. From there checked in at Hotel Indigo, interesting, a bit different than the usual chain, but […]