To DBA or Not to DBA…

In my day to day operations I have the opportunity to work with people in various capacities in regards to data.  Sometimes it is in the capacity of a mentor, sometimes in the capacity of […]

Summit 2013 – Part the First

While not technically the first day of Summit since the official start is yet to come, here are my thoughts on Sunday and Monday of PASS Summit 2013. For many of us the week began […]

Carolina Whistle Stops

The SQL Crazy train continues chugging along this month.  The next two whistle stops are back to back in the Carolinas. The first stop is coming up in just a few short hours.  I will […]

Coast to Coast with SQL Saturday

Last month I blogged about the SQL Crazy train making a whistle stop in Providence Rhode Island.  A couple of weeks prior to that, you may have read this article about the Salt Lake City […]

T-SQL Tuesday #47: SWAG SWAG SWAG

This month we probably have the easiest topic I have ever seen for a TSQL Tuesday blog party.  That isn’t a slight, but rather is something of a good thing. This is a very hectic […]

Join The SQL Crazy Train

One of the best lines I heard in the past few weeks was “That train has sailed.”  Combine that with a crazy schedule and we now have a SQL Crazy train that floats from event […]

MCM on Life Support

Good news everybody.  October 1st is no longer the day that the MCM was prescribed to die.  The Microsoft Certified Master is now on life support until December 31st, 2013.  Which means that the Jan […]

My Hack…err…Rube Goldberg Machine

My deadline is fast approaching.  It seems these days that editors have no patience.  On top of that there is this ever-shrinking deadline problem and the constantly shrinking lead-time to publication issue. Oh wait, it’s […]

Las Vegas UG September 2013

  Are you ready for some SQL? If you are like me, you are probably almost always ready for some SQL.  Well, we have just what you are hungry for – more SQL. Thursday evening […]

SQLSaturday Salt Lake City #246

Fast approaching (yeah just a couple of days out now), is SQLSaturday 246.  This year t he event is sort of in Salt Lake City, being another 10-15 minutes south on the I-15 corridor. I […]