Today I received an email, nothing unusual about that. This email happened to be from a SQL blogger. It’s one of those newsletter type things, it even said at the bottom that I had opted into receiving this email. The only thing is that I, at no point, signed up to receive a newsletter. In…
Month: June 2011
Hardening SQL Server
My new article for SQL Server Magazine on Hardening SQL Server has been posted online and will appear in an upcoming print issue. This article is a brief explanation of how to secure SQL Server against malicious attack or invasion. This article can serve as a guide for preventing your SQL Servers from being compromised.…
T-SQL Tuesday #19–What A Disaster
Allen Kinsel (blog|twitter) is running this months T-SQL Tuesday and wanted to know about preparing or recovering from a disaster. I thought this might be a good opportunity to tell a little story of how a disaster sucked up around three weeks of my life a couple of years ago. It was a normal day,…
Speakers Third Rule
You’ve mastered the first rule and have submitted a session to present at a SQLSaturday, local user group or at your office, excellent. Your presentation is written, all the details are there…slides, demos and you’ve got your patter. You’ve followed the second rule and the presentation is all you. What’s next? Practice makes perfect Time…
Speakers Second Rule
After writing a post for Un-SQL Friday on the first rule of speaking I decided that it would make quite a good series of posts, so here’s my second rule of speaking: Find your own voice What do I mean by this? As an analogy when I first started out blogging I tried to emulate…
Un-SQL Friday #004–Speakers First Rule
I may be a day late and a dollar short for Un-SQL Friday #004: Speaker Lessons Learned but still felt I had something to share. One of my favorite book series is The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind. The first of the 11 book series is called Wizards First Rule. It’s one of those…