Using Slack for Conference Session Q&A
Next month at the PASS Summit in Seattle, Erik Darling and I are teaching a one-day pre-conference class on performance tuning. We sold ~300 seats, which is awesome – but…
Tools We Use for Remote Work
A reader emailed in to ask: We are in the process of trying to move to working remotely more often. I know that your team for the most part are…
How I Manage Email and Tasks, 2017 Edition
In a recent SQLServerRadio.com podcast episode, @Guy_Glantser and @MatanYungman talked about how they organize their work. I wrote about how I managed emails and tasks in 2015, and a lot…
Dream Car Track Garage: 4 Cars, $100k
In my dream car garage series, I’ve assumed that the garage is at home – but what if it’s at the Autobahn Country Club? Yes, that’s an actual thing. In the…
Designing This Year’s PASS Summit Session
I’m honored to say that I’ll be presenting a session at the PASS Summit this year. The Summit is kinda like the Super Bowl of American SQL Server conferences: the…
Goodbye SQLCruise, Hello Tech Outbound.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been seven years since I had an idea, booked a cruise, and emailed a few friends: SQLCruise: My Next Bad Idea I really didn’t…
The DBA Job I Turned Down – #TSQL2sday
For this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, Kendra Little asked us to share our interview patterns, anti-patterns, highs, and lows. Several years ago, I was talking to a prospective employer via phone,…
Thoughts on Building Community Tools
The nice folks over at the SQL Data Partners Podcast, Carlos & Steve, talked to me and Chrissy LeMaire (of DBAtools.io fame) recently about what it’s like to build an…
Should You Take a Salary When Starting a Consulting Company?
In the startup world, the general advice is for founders to pay themselves $50k-$100k/year until they get outside funding. Your net worth ends up higher – but only if you…
Dream Car Garage: 4 Cars, $250k
In the last couple of posts in my dream car garage series, I’ve kept a low budget. Screw that – let’s spend some money. Let’s pretend we’ve hit the big…
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