The PASS Summit is coming up at the end of this month; thus, public speaking is on my mind. This has inspired me to make this week’s 5 Tips for Friday about public speaking. These tips don’t just apply for conferences, big or small, they also apply to any public speaking you may do, like…
Category: Professional Development
PASS Summit 2017 Precon – Virtual SQL Servers: Right to Ludicrous Speed
PASS has continues to ramp up the plans for the PASS Summit in Seattle this October, and my precon session, “Virtual SQL Servers – Right to Ludicrous Speed” has a few open slots for this Tuesday session. This topic is near and dear to my heart, and I’m thrilled to be able to present to the…
SQL Saturday Minnesota Preconference Training Session
This is just a quick reminder to encourage you to attend my next round of all-day precon training session at the upcoming SQL Saturday in Minnesota on Friday, October 6 called ‘The Complete Primer to SQL Server Infrastructure and Cloud‘. The focus of the course is to help those new to the enterprise server infrastructure concepts become familiar with the concept…
Q&A Session with SQL Server on VMware Experts at VMworld EMEA
Greetings everyone! We had so many people stay after our SQL Server on VMware sessions at VMworld USA to ask great questions, I thought I’d extend an offer to everyone at the European show coming up in a week! Let’s talk SQL Server! We are going to crash the VMvillage hang space on Tuesday, September…
SQL Server on VMware VMworld USA Videos Now On YouTube
I just realized that our two SQL Server on VMwaresessions that I co-presented on Tuesday at VMworld USA, both of which made the top 10 sessions of the day list at the conference, are now on YouTube! They are free to watch for everyone! For those of you with virtualized SQL Servers, regardless of platform and cloud or…
Pay Yourself First
I’ve done a ton of interviewing in my career, both as the interviewee, and as the interviewer. The biggest problem I see is the huge number of DBAs who have let themselves fall behind. How does this happen? Middle of the pack Once you’re a more or less established DBA, you have yourself a job,…
How To Not Be a Commodity DBA – Part 1
A couple of months ago I wrote about the concept of the DBA as a commodity (DBAaaC), and how it can be so easy for management to consider any DBA as a basic, and replaceable resource within their organization. This got me to thinking (and it would seem that my thinking takes a long time)…
T-SQL Tuesday #93: 3 Jobs I Didn't Take and 1 I did
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again, and this month’s host is Kendra Little (blog|@), and the excellent topic selected by Kendra is Interviewing Patterns & Anti-Patterns. When I logged on to Twitter this morning, the first tweet I saw was for Brent Ozar’s (@BrentO) post The DBA Job I Turned Down. It was another great post from…
DBA as a Commodity
If you’ve been working around the IT industry for a few years then you have probably heard mention of commodity servers. These are machines that run a standardized hardware spec, and are easily interchangeable with others. The price point around the machines is that it is typically cheaper to replace than it is to repair them,…
Who Needs a DBA?
I was perusing my RSS Feeds this morning, and came across an article by Steve Jones (b|t) about Changing Times. In this post Steve talks about Microsoft not having any DBAs in their cloud team, and that it is all managed by DevOps folks. This message came from a talk that was given at SQLBits and…