For the last two years, I’ve participated in Sean’s InfoWorld Xmas Wish List, where we review a bunch of cool products and it’s all spiffy.  Sean has moved on from IW, and I’m not entirely sure we’re going to knock out a full review list this year.  So,… Read more

Hi-ho all, and a wonderful Un-SQL event it’s been!  We had at least twenty-six entries!! First, the recap:

While T-SQL Tuesday is “…the SQL Server blogosphere’s first recurring, revolving blog party….on the chosen [SQL-related] topic, “UN-SQL Friday is a completely intermittent blog party about something SQL-adjacent.…

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Here is my contribution to my blog party, Un-SQL Friday 001: Branding.  Join in the fun, won’t you?

I have a theory that for any given concept, there is a spectrum of possible concentrations of that topic. It applies to skills (e.g., some folks are wildly talented musicians, some… Read more

How many of you have heard that the Community Technology Preview (CTP1) for the next version of SQL Server is out?  Well, now all of you have. You can download and play with the Denali preview here. 

Now, if you’re patting yourself on the… Read more

In the spirit of T-SQL Tuesday, I hereby declare this Friday Un-SQL Friday. While T-SQL Tuesday is “…the SQL Server blogosphere’s first recurring, revolving blog party….on the chosen [SQL-related] topic,” UN-SQL Friday is a completely intermittant blog party about something SQL-adjacent. (This, by the way, sort of… Read more

PASS Summit 2010 is over, and we are suffering from the lack of chatter and SQL celebrity sightings.  Bloggers are writing wrap-up pieces, people are tweeting with new pals, and it feels a tiny bit like Christmas is over – all the presents unwrapped, food eaten, family sent home.  But,… Read more

 I’m live blogging the PASS keynote…it’s 8:44 local time.   

• Me: Tuesday is #SQLSat shirt day, Wednesday is #sqlkilt day, Thursday is Show Up day. #sqlpass

Here’s the PASS website description of the day 2 keynote …this is the one everyone’s been talking about, the DeWitt keynote.  Remember to follow along… Read more

12:42pm local time at the live streamed Women in Technology luncheon…let’s blog. I’ll italicize my comments, to differentiate betwee that an my paraphrasing of the panel members.

We’re just getting started. Wendy Pastrick just recognized the kilt-wearers, GoDaddy and Microsoft, and the PASS Board of Directors.  Check out PASS… Read more

I’m live blogging the PASS keynote…it’s 8:44 local time.   

Here’s the PASS website description of the day 2 keynote …we had no surprise celebrity impersonators today.  Initial notes:

Bill Graziano is NOT, repeat, NOT wearing a kilt.  He had the kilted stand up…nearly the entire bloggers’… Read more

I’m live blogging the PASS keynote…it’s 8:38 local time. 

You wouldn’t guess by the PASS website description of the day 1 keynote the tone set right off the bat… 

Senior Vice President, Business Platform Division
Microsoft Corp. 

Ted Kummert will…

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I have no excuse, none whatsoever.

In my T-SQL Brush-Up presentation to the North Texas SQL Server User Group (NTSSUG) in September – and again in the T-SQL Brush-Up 24HOP session I gave that same day - I mentioned that you can only have one… Read more

You there, sitting in your cube and fuming at all the PASS Summit talk: you couldn’t talk your company into sending you to PASS this year, could you? Or, you got on the bandwagon too late. Whatever the reason, you’re stuck working next week, and you’re mad. We feel your… Read more