Speaking at the 2011 PASS Summit

I submitted three sessions to the 2011 Summit for consideration and I heard today that two of them were accepted,...

The 2012 Rally

In case you hadn’t heard, the 2012 SQL Rally will be in Dallas. Andy Warren talks about the process for...

Understanding Security

It is important for data professionals to understand security, but it's also important for end users that must handle data. However we have a lot of work to do to make that easier since Steve Jones thinks many IT pros struggle with this concept.

Etiquette

As technology has rapidly advanced our communications, we have not necessarily learned to deal with the implications and challenges of this anywhere, anytime communication reach. Steve Jones reminds us that etiquette matters, even when we are designing systems.

T-SQL Tuesday #19 – Disaster Recovery

This month Allen Kinsel hosts T-SQL Tuesday #19 with a disaster recovery theme. This is the blog party idea started...

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Cloud Outages

It seems that we regularly hear about outages from various cloud services. Steve Jones comments that we are likely to have this happen more and more, but it's shouldn't happen at a rate greater than in house IT services.

What’s a Disaster?

In working on my Preparation for Disaster presentation and doing research, one of the questions that came up early for...

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SQL Dream Cars

A mini debate on Twitter the other day got me thinking about cars. People that know me know I like...