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Something Technical This Way Comes
To quote Ray Bradbury in Something Wicked This Way Comes: “Everything that happens before Death is what counts.” Wow! How simple and profound. Do you live your life as if it counts for something?...
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Tell Me A Story, Please
I read some great advice today while researching effective presentation skills in order for me to prepare my presentation for a future SQL Saturday. Being my first ever SQL Server presentation, I am...
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SQL Saturday #132, Pensacola
Wow, another SQL Saturday is coming up and I am über excited! For this one I will travel up the panhandle to beautiful Pensacola with my lovely bride who will enjoy the sun and fun with me as we turn...
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Leaving Today for SQL Saturday #132, Pensacola
The day has finally arrived: travel day! I am leaving today after work for the six-hour drive to Pensacola for SQL Saturday #132. We have a new John Grisham audiobook, Calico Joe, ready for the...
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SQL Saturday 132, Pre-Con
Today I am spending the day at Pensacola State College attending the pre-conference training for SQL Saturday #132 titled “Demystifying Database Administration Best Practices” presented by Microsoft...
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SQL Saturday #132 Pensacola, My First Presentation!
Welcome to Pensacola: home of the flash floods, torrential downpours, and wonderful people! Blogging live from SQL Saturday #132 after giving my world premier first presentation and my adrenaline is...
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We Survived SQL Saturday #132, Pensacola
Relaxing in a Tallahassee Spring Hill Suites, I am reflecting on this weekend’s trip to Pensacola. Why Tallahassee? This SQL Learning trip was turned into a long weekend with my wife. We decided to...
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Good Best Practice Advice from the Pensacola Pre-Con
For my first blog about SQL Saturday #132, I wanted to review some of the good advice I received from the pre-conference training on Friday prior to the event. The pre-con titled “Demystifying...
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Good Best Practice Advice from the Pensacola Pre-Con, Round Two
Yesterday, I wrote about some advice that I received at the pre-con titled “Demystifying Database Administration Best Practices” which was presented by Microsoft Certified Masters Robert Davis...
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Green? If You Only Knew the Power of the Dark Side!
Default Server Power Plan Continuing my blog series from SQL Saturday #132, I wanted to review one piece of good advice I received from the pre-conference training on Friday prior to the event. The...
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Final Thought from SQL Saturday Pensacola Pre-Con
For my final blog about SQL Saturday #132, I wanted to leave you with one all-encompassing piece of advice that I received from the pre-conference training on Friday prior to the event. The pre-con...
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Personal Development Plan…Midway Status
Six months for 2012 are now in the books and I thought it would be a good time to revisit my original goals for the year and see what needs to still be done. My updates will be highlighted in bold. I...
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Presentation Ponderings
After my first presentation at SQL Saturday Pensacola, I am ready to do another and need to submit for SQL Saturday Orlando later this month. All of that is not a problem, I just don’t know if I...
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Never Heard of SQL Saturday?
Karla Landrum (twitter|blog), Community Evangelist for SQL PASS, made the comment this morning on Twitter that there are many people out there in the SQL community who still have not heard about SQL...
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SQL Saturday Submission Completed
My first full-length session submission for SQL Saturday has been input. Even if I do not get selected, I am moving forward in the right direction towards the completion of my goals for 2012. The...
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SQL Saturday Orlando
When looking back over the past month to determine things that I have no blogged about while doing my series of question’s and answers, I realized that I did not get a chance to announce the biggest...
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SQL Saturday #168, Tampa BI Edition
Yesterday I received some terrific news, I was selected to speak at the Tampa BI Edition of SQL Saturday on November 17, 2012. I will be giving my “Best Practices Are Not Just Hypothetical”...
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SQL Saturday #151, T minus 3 Days and Counting
It’s Wednesday and the 6th annual SQL Saturday for Orlando is around the corner. This is where it all started, it is also home to the first SQL Saturday that I went to. You know you want to get some...
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I Survived!
Well my first SQL Saturday presentation has been completed. No one was injured, I didn’t respond to my flight (as in fight or flight) instincts, and no one heckled me. It didn’t go as well as I...
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What a Great SQL Weekend
My wife and I have just returned from a wonderful weekend in Lake Mary, Florida at SQL Saturday #151. We enjoy getting away for the weekend and staying in our beloved Marriott chains. This time...
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