What I Wish I Knew Sooner as a DBA
Mike Walsh asked a few folks for 4 things they wish they’d have known earlier. 1. You have customers, not users or coworkers. Every person you work with today is a potential reference…
Six Sentence Emails that Get Fast Responses
Get them while you can. Always assume that the person on the other end gets hundreds of emails per day, and they’ve got 60 seconds free as they walk to their…
The Kardashian Approach to Becoming an IT Celebrity
So you want to be “Internet Famous” in the IT community, but you don’t want to spend your mornings and weekends slaving away on the work I described in my…
Wanna Run for #SQLPASS Board? Better Read the Rules.
The rules this year are clearer than ever, and that’s awesome. But you’d better actually read them (warning: Word docx), because there’s a few doozies like this one: “All campaigning must…
What If You Want to Be “Internet Famous?”
There’s a lot of reasons to blog, present, and build a brand – get a better job, change careers, raise your billable rate – but what if you just want…
This Year’s YouTube, Web, and Twitter Analytics
Every year, Microsoft MVPs have to fill out some paperwork describing what they did on their summer vacation. Each time I do this, the numbers boggle my mind, so I’m…
Donate to Doctors Without Borders, and I’ll Wear…
Donate to this Doctors Without Borders campaign before the PASS Summit and check out what humiliating things we’ll be doing to ourselves: $5,000 Total Donations: Argenis Fernandez will wear this unicorn…
Why I Love the SQLBits Conference
I’m ridiculously lucky to be able to attend so many conferences around the world as part of my job. (Hey, we’re self-employed, so we get to decide what our job…
I Need Your Help Improving #SQLPASS
Read this if you’re a #SQLPASS attendee – you’re the one I’m trying to help. Last week I wrote about how conference organizers pick sessions, and I closed by talking about how…
Partners? What Partners?
A few related news posts made me chuckle (in a good way) this week: Microsoft unveils storage arrays with ties into Azure – Their StorSimple 8100 and 8600 can migrate…
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