How I Got Past a Writing Block
I’m not Stephen King, but I enjoy posting regularly. Somewhere between SQLCruise, consulting work with BrentOzar PLF, and moving to Portland, I got stuck.
Audience Feedback from SQL Rally
A few weeks back, I presented on SQL Server Table Partitioning at the first SQLRally conference. The event was energizing and fun– there were great conversations and I sat in on fun sessions. I particularly enjoyed Todd Robinson’s session on caching with App Fabric.
Caching and Grocery Shopping
I recently talked with @TheJudgeOfCheese (t) about design patterns and grocery shopping.
Tycho Brahe and Moving to Portland
This much we agreed on: Tycho Brahe was a visionary, an astronomer, and he lost a big piece of his nose.
The rest was murky. I thought he died from syphilis, and that possibly his nose had been lost the same way.
Jeremiah said he lost his nose in a duel, and that he died of some sort of toxicity related to refusing to pee.
We were in the car, going somewhere. I think we were going to Portland and it was move-related. This is, you see, because we’re moving to Portland.
SQL PASS Submissions 2011
It’s time to submit abstracts for the SQL PASS 2011 Summit. Here’s what I’d like to get up to.
Down the Rabbit Hole
You often don’t realize you’ve gone too far until it’s too late.
What Do You Call a Group of Experts?
What’s an expert?
A variety of definitions of “expert” get tossed around – a specialist, someone with comprehensive knowledge, the person who knows more about a topic than anyone else within six feet. Many people go the way of the Supreme Court and say they know an expert when they see it.
Do you work with data? You have options.
In preparing for the SQLPeople event, I thought about the role, motivation, and techniques of a “knowledge worker” in today’s society.
SQLPeople events
Not too long ago, Andy Leonard (blog|twitter) dreamed up the idea to create the SQLPeople community. The community is forming around the stories and ideas of its members. The SQLPeople website shares stories.
Can you write a story in 11 words or less?
“Sam Beckett, revised: Code again, error again, monitor better.”