Do #SQLPASS Attendees Want Products in Sessions? It Turns Out, Yes.
There’s a lot of talk going around about what’s good for PASS Summit attendees. I don’t like to guess what they like – instead, I like looking at attendee feedback…
Book Mini-Reviews: Consulting Handbook, Innovator’s Dilemma, and Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man
When I’ve got spare time to unwind, I tend to read blogs, watch TV, or play games – Hitman:Absolution is in heavy rotation at the moment – but every now…
Blog For Your Resume, Not For Your Readers
Are you afraid to blog because you’re worried no one will read it? It doesn’t matter. Write a blog because months or years from now, someone is going to Google…
A Presenter’s Guide to Running Out of Time
You’re in the middle of presenting to an audience, you just glanced at your watch, and you realize your presentation is running way behind. Never, ever say “I’m running low…
Vaio Canvas Z Review (From a Mac Guy)
I’ve been a MacBook Pro user since Windows Vista. I just couldn’t bring myself to love Vista, and back then, the Apple guys seemed so much cooler. They had a *nix-style OS,…
Why We’re Running Our Own Pre-Con Instead of a PASS Summit One
More than one person has asked me, “Why are you running your own pre-conference event instead of doing a PASS Summit pre-con? Isn’t that a bad thing, like you’re taking away…
How the Company-Startup Thing Worked Out For Me, Year 4
It’s time for my annual update on the wild ride. A brief recap of what’s happened so far: Typical partner meeting in year four, Vegas April 2011 – started the…
Should You Be a Generalist or a Specialist?
James Rowland-Jones doing the SQLSaturday Vienna keynote At SQLSaturday Vienna last month, James Rowland-Jones (SQLbits organizer, former MVP, consulting company founder, and now Microsoft principal program manager, which is a…
How to Measure Your Career (SQLSaturday Israel Keynote)
My name is Brent Ozar, and I help people make SQL Server go faster. That basically means I measure things for a living. If I’m going to make something faster,…
Building a Company Is Like Multi-Player Katamari Damacy
In the video game Katamari Damacy, you roll a ball through the world, slowly picking up objects by running over them. You can’t pick up big objects right away –…
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