May 2011 - Posts

• Yesterday

  Posted Thursday, May 19, 2011 3:00 PM | 5 Comments
  
  

  Wednesday 18th May 2011 - That's a date that will stay in my memory for a long time. I need to go back a little to put this in context. Brent Ozar (Twitter|Blog) was working for Quest and he mentioned on his blog or tweeted that he was going to be at Read More by fatherjack | 5 Comments | Comment on this post Filed Under: community, SQL in the City

• A shameless plug for the SQL community

  Posted Thursday, May 12, 2011 2:00 PM | 1 Comments
  
  

  Last night I made my debut as a speaker at a user group meeting in Southampton, UK. As I have mentioned before, I have been invited by Red Gate to talk at their SQL in the City event in July so I was looking for an opportunity to practice with a smaller Read More by fatherjack | 1 Comments | Comment on this post Filed Under: community

• Make someone's Monday

  Posted Tuesday, May 10, 2011 3:00 AM | 0 Comments
  
  

  LiveJournal Tags: community,career,reputation,honesty,recomMonday,PayItForward Everyone hates Mondays, it's pretty much a universal feeling. The weekend is over, you had a good time gardening, decorating, cooking, spending time with loved ones, spending Read More by fatherjack | 0 Comments | Comment on this post Filed Under: community

• I got 99 problems but a disk ain't one

  Posted Monday, May 02, 2011 3:00 AM | 0 Comments
  
  

  Part of the MemeMonday blog series, started by Thomas LaRock: "The idea is for you to list out the things that can go wrong with SQL that are NOT a result of disk issues. No, you don't need to do 99, try to think of nine (9) things that come Read More by fatherjack | 0 Comments | Comment on this post Filed Under: Blogging