SSC Moving

As if it weren't enough that I was moving my home, the SSC site is also moving. I'll drop some...

A Funny Thing Happened at Starbucks

I decided to commit to the book, so I'm waiting on some information  and a contact from my co-author and...

Remote DBA

I'm getting ready to look for a new cell phone and I got lots of suggestions from my editorial on...

To Write or Not to Write

That's the decision to be made.

Apress contacted me about the update for my book. I wrote 1/2 of the Designing...

The Perils of Java Schools

This is great, another rant from Joel, this time on the state of CS Degrees.

I didn't grow up in the...

Last Minute Testing

I've had a new web server for a couple months and I've been slowly testing things as I can in...

Early Christmas

At least for me 🙂

My wife and I put an offer in on a house this past Monday and spent...

Anyone want to handle this?

I get a lot of email at SQLServerCentral.com on a variety of topics. Complaints about my writing, comments on the...

Denver Launch

I wrote a little in the editorial, but I wanted to drop some other observations here.

First, apologies for not blogging...

SQL 2005 Certified

Maybe not certified, but I took the 70-441 test today and I thought it was relatively easy. The format was...