THE Sales Question: “What Does Success Look Like to You?”
Most of my sales work involves a productized service: the SQL Critical Care®, a package of consulting work with a defined set of steps and a finish line. But sometimes on…
How I Handle Weekend and Holiday Work
Vegas, baby! When you’re independent, sooner or later, somebody’s gonna want you to work on the weekend or on a holiday. Or, they may say something like, “Is there any…
The Tools and Services I Used to Build GroupBy.org
About a month ago when I announced my plans to build GroupBy.org, I wrote: And I bet I can do this whole thing for free, without charging attendees or speakers.…
What Sessions I’m Attending at AWS re:Invent This Week
Richie and I are at the AWS re:Invent conference because: AWS Reinvent 2016 A good number of our customers run SQL Server on Amazon Web Services We use AWS ourselves (our first project, PasteThePlan, was built…
GroupBy Conference is Now Accepting Session Submissions
Last month I announced my next crazy idea, a free online conference, and then I asked for your help picking the logo. Now it’s time to take the wrapping off.…
Survey Says: My #SQLsummit 2016 Session Ratings & Comments
After conference attendee feedback comes in, I like to blog about it to talk about what worked and what didn’t. This year, I think things worked fantastically overall. Intro to…
Thoughts on Giving Away How to Think Like the Engine
This year at the PASS Summit, I submitted one of my favorite abstracts, How to Think Like the Engine. It’s an introduction to SQL Server internals. I was really excited when…
The Three Parts of Every Presentation (#tsqltuesday #sqlnewspeakers)
T-SQL Tuesday: Growing New Speakers Every presentation has three parts: The topic you want to cover The material you write to cover the topic The way you deliver the material…
Pick the Logo for GroupBy, the Free Online Conference
The free online database conference I wrote about two weeks ago now has a name: Group By. Now, we need a logo. I ran a 99designs contest, and I’ve narrowed…
Questions & Answers From My #SQLSummit 500-Level Guide to Career Internals
Last week at the PASS Summit, I presented a half-day session: The 500-Level Guide to Career Internals. I used a cool new trick to accept private/silent questions live via the web,…
Hi, I’m Brent Ozar. I live in Las Vegas, Nevada. I’m on an epic life quest to have fun and make a difference.
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