Are You An Expert?
Category:
database-administration
Should you call yourself an expert? And what does it take to be an expert?
How I Got Past a Writing Block
Category:
database-administration
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
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database-administration
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
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database-administration
I recently talked with @TheJudgeOfCheese (t) about design patterns and grocery shopping.
Tycho Brahe and Moving to Portland
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database-administration
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
Category:
database-administration
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
Category:
career
You often don’t realize you’ve gone too far until it’s too late.