Down the Rabbit Hole
Category:
career
You often don’t realize you’ve gone too far until it’s too late.
What Do You Call a Group of Experts?
Category:
database-administration
, career
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.
Category:
database-administration
In preparing for the SQLPeople event, I thought about the role, motivation, and techniques of a “knowledge worker” in today’s society.
SQLPeople events
Category:
database-administration
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?
Category:
tsql-programming
“Sam Beckett, revised: Code again, error again, monitor better.”
To Do: Win Great SQL Training and a Cruise
Category:
database-administration
Wondering what to do when you get a break from work email today?
Make your opening move in a fun contest.
I laughed, I cried, it was better than CATS: The Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 Reference Guide
Category:
query-performance
You know what’s crazy?
A comprehensive, technical, well thought-out, and ENJOYABLE document. One written with the occasional interesting diagram and a reasonable use of acronyms, with effective tables and practical advice. A document that’s written for a human being which has helpful links to supporting documentation, but still makes you think.