CTE Book Signing at PASS Summit – Wed 6:45pm
Wednesday at 6:45PM I will be doing a book signing of my Common Table Expressions Book. Joes2Pros will be giving away 30 books during this signing. Come by the Joes2Pros booth for a chance at one of the 30 CTE Books. Please come by and visit! See You There!
PASS SUMMIT 2013 Bookstore – A Nice Surprise
After registering at PASS SUMMIT 13, I had a nice surprise. I walked over to the bookstore to see what interesting new books I could find. I discovered that they had a stack of my book on Common Table Expressions. Seeing my book with the stacks of other SQL Server books was a great feeling. The book has been available …
Day 1 at PASS Summit 13
After the red eye flight last night I finally arrived at PASS Summit 13, and picked up my registration packet. On the cab ride from the airport I had a great lecture (not much of a discussion) from the cab driver on politics and the Affordable Care Act. When I finally asked him what it was going to change for …
4 days until Pass Summit 2013
This year I will be attending PASS Summit 2013 in Charlotte North Carolina. It seemed like ages ago when I registered, and now just we are just a few days away from Summit 2013. This will be the first SQL conference that I have been to for some time where I will not be speaking. I am looking forward to …
Working on my sessions for DevTeach in Vancouver in December.
The two sessions I will be presenting at DevTeach in Vancouver BC will be the following: Using FILESTREAM and FILETABLES in SQL Server – Configuring and Using FILESTREAM and FILETABLES in SQL Server Developers love to use SQL Server to store files, but this causes headaches for the DBA, finally a reasonable solution for file storage in SQL Server FILETABLES …
Working on my sessions for DevTeach in Vancouver in December. Read more »
I Just Passed the Certified Scrum Professional Exam
Over the last month I have been studying in preparation for the Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Professional exam which I just passed. What I loved about preparing for he CSP exam was the amount of new material that I was exposed to. Things like Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Unit Testing, and much more. What a great experience. Now it …
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Segregating Facebook and LinkedIn or Twitter
After a recent presentation at SQL Saturday Denver on building your personal brand name presented by Steve Jones (@way0utwest). One of the things that was discussed was splitting your personal contacts from your professional contacts in the following social networks: Facebook Just close friends and family, not the people you work with. This way when friends or family say something that …
A great day at SQL In The City by Redgate
Friday I had a great day at Redgate’s SQL In The City presentation by Steve Jones (@way0utwest). There were three sessions presented which are summarized below. Session 1 – Team-based Database Development with Version Control I thought that this session was going to mostly review for me since I am already familiar with the Redgate SQL Source control product, and use …
SSMS Results In A Separate Tab
At the end of my SQL Saturday presentation today on Advanced Common Table Expressions, which is about the 12th time I have presented on CTEs, I was asked a question that I have been asked many times after I present. I am blogging about this because I have been asked about it so many times. This one one of those …