More Thoughts on Certification

After a great response to my last post on Certification, I need to post my thoughts on 70-450 PRO: Designing,...

Being Involved in the Community

Regular readers know that I enjoy being involved in the SQL Server community.  Over the last two and a half...

Thoughts on SQL Server Certification

This is probably part 1 of a series, but no guarantees.

Why Certify?
I've been working with SQL Server for 10 years...

Thoughts on SQL Server Certification

This is probably part 1 of a series, but no guarantees.

Why Certify?
I've been working with SQL Server for 10 years...

PASS Releases Survey Results & Summit Location – Reactions

The Impetus
So after Andy Warren’s (@SqlAndy) blog post, PASS Update #24, last week and the follow-up posts by myself (A...

March OPASS Meeting Recap

We had a great turnout of 25 people for last night’s OPASS Meeting sponsored by Quest Software.
We started the meeting...

A Swing and a Miss by PASS

On Saturday my son had his second baseball game.  When it was his turn to hit I reminded him to...

OPASS March Meeting with David Pless

March 9 6-8:30pm
This month's meeting sponsored by
Live Meeting: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=QFG3GW&role=attend
Speaker: David Pless
David has been a Senior Premier Field Engineer with...

Timing Matters

A few weeks ago I got an email from my backup administrator with a message like this:
Set type               : Backup
Set...

Speaker Evaluations for SQLSaturday #32 – Tampa

I recently received my Speaker Evaluations for my session, Why I Use Stored Procedures, from Pam Shaw (@pamshaw) and as...