Today, I’m not thankful that it’s Friday, although I am happy about it. Today I am thankful for the wisdom of Grant Fritchey ( b/ t ). No Grant didn’t help me with any kind of problem, at least directly. Hell, I have never even met the man in person anyway. No, I’m not some kind of weirdo interwebs creeper
When it comes to working with other people it is always best to remember that others are not always on the same page. In fact, when dealing with others that work alongside you, it is imperative to remember they are most likely to see and evaluate issues and opportunities differently from you, especially when you work in different technologies. These
Steve Jones (t|b) wrote a blog post talking about the death of the title Database Administrator. Mind you, he was talking about the title of DBA, not the actual job of being a DBA. Semantics, right? If you look across the inter-webs, the death of the DBA has been a favorite of the tech prophets for a long time. It
I’m a bad DBA, at least from the standpoint of blogging. Only because I haven’t done much of a lately. I did make sure to get a post in for TSQL2sDay to mention who I was thankful for. That was a great topic. So…if you’re wondering why I haven’t blogged, or have checked to see how I like the new
Interesting title on a blog dedicated to technical ideas like SQL Server huh? Well there’s a reason for this, which I’ll divulge shortly. After I moved back to Colorado from Oklahoma in 2014, I took a full time position as a SQL DBA for an area hospital. I’ve had the pleasure of working with 2 other DBAs that are just
I feel accomplished a bit this year, I’ve made it to two SQLSaturdays in the same calendar year. This SQLSaturday was put on by the Denver SQL Users group and was hosted at the University of Denver. There were a number of sessions I wanted to attend, and they all seemed to be in the same block, I hate when
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party that is the brainchild of Adam Machanic (b/t). This month the blog party is being hosted by Kendra Little (b/t). This month’s topic is on interviews and patterns used in interviews. As Data Professionals, we spend a lot of time with our heads in books, blogs, Twitter, Stack Exchange, etc. learning as much
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party that is the brainchild of Adam Machanic (blog/twitter). This month the blog party is being hosted by Raul Gonzalez (blog/twitter). This month’s topic is about lessons learned the hard way. Learning the hard way… I can’t say that I have learned these things in the SQL world, because I am relatively new to
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party that is the brainchild of Adam Machanic (blog/twitter). This month the blog party is being hosted by Koen Verbeeck ( blog/twitter) and is inspired by Kendra Little’s (blog/twitter) recent blog post regarding the role of the DBA and The Cloud. Change Working in IT doesn’t have any guarantees except one, that things will
SQL Saturday Colorado Springs (SQLSat #584) It’s been a while since I’ve attended a SQL Saturday. I think the last one was in 2013 in OKC, to be exact. I had blogged about that one too, but I think I lost that post with the old website. At any rate, it was great to be able to go again. It’s