Clik here to view.
How many people will be with you during 24HOP?
In less than a week, SQLPASS hosts another 24 Hours of PASS event, this time with an array of 24 female speakers (in honour of this month being Women’s History Month).Interestingly, the committee has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LobsterPot submissions for SQLPASS
My guys are great! When PASS started accepting abstract submissions for their Summit (in October this year), some of the LobsterPot employees immediately started looking into ideas for talks they could...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How failure can be useful
First, an apology. I haven’t blogged for the last couple of months, except for T-SQL Tuesday events. I make myself blog for these, for two reasons. One is the simple fact that I like the concept – I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More free training from PASS
Yeah, alright. I know PASS puts on heaps of free training all the time. There are meetings around the world all the time, as held by hundreds of chapters. Seriously, there’s over 240 chapters in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
24 hours to pass until 24 Hours of PASS
There’s a bunch of stuff going on at the moment in the SQL world, so if you’ve missed this particular piece of news, let me tell you a bit about it.Twice a year, the SQL community puts on its biggest...
View ArticleClik here to view.
24 Hours of PASS – first reflections
A few days after the end of 24HOP, I find myself reflecting on it.I’m still waiting on most of the information. I want to be able to discover things like where the countries represented on each of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
T-SQL in Chicago – the LobsterPot teams with DataEducation
In May, I’ll be in the US. I have board meetings for PASS at the SQLRally event in Dallas, and then I’m going to be spending a bit of time in Chicago.The big news is that while I’m in Chicago (May...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Adelaide's SQL Tuesday
This coming Tuesday sees a midweek SQL Saturday hit Adelaide. LobsterPot’s a sponsor, as are a bunch of other companies.An all day event, with two tracks featuring some of the best material you’ve ever...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Fabulous”
I don’t tend to find that anything about me gets described as “Fabulous”. It’s not a word I ever use myself, so I was slightly amused to see it here.It’s going to be an interesting week (in May, Monday...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Summit reflections
So far, my three PASS Summit experiences have been notably different to each other. My first, I wasn’t on the board and I gave two regular sessions and a Lightning Talk in which I told jokes.My second,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An MCM exam, Rob? Really?
I took the SQL 2008 MCM Knowledge exam while in Seattle for the PASS Summit ten days ago.I wasn’t planning to do it, but I got persuaded to try. I was meaning to write this post to explain myself...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MCM Lab exam this week
In two days I’ll’ve finished the MCM Lab exam, 88-971. If you do an internet search for 88-971, it’ll tell you the answer is –883. Obviously.It’ll also give you a link to the actual exam page, which is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The MCM lab exam – two days later
Readers of my blog, or followers on Twitter will know I took the MCM Lab exam a couple of days ago. I let people know I was doing the exam, rather than doing the ‘normal’ thing of doing it in secret...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MCM – I passed!
I was wrong – I passed the MCM lab last month.I know I thought I’d failed – I’m still surprised that I passed. Maybe I managed to satisfy enough of enough questions. Certainly none of the questions...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why should you bother with the PASS BA Conference this April?
I mean really? Why should you spend some of your training budget to go to this thing? Suppose you’re someone in the PASS Community who mainly looks after people’s data. That could involve database...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why I present
Louis Davidson just asked me why I write, and now Bob Pusateri (@sqlbob) is asking me why I present, which is his question for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday.If you didn’t follow the link to see his actual...
View ArticleClik here to view.
When is your interview?
Sometimes it’s tough to evaluate someone – to figure out if you think they’d be worth hiring. These days, since starting LobsterPot Solutions, I have my share of interviews, on both sides of the desk....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Less than a month away...
The PASS Summit for 2014 is nearly upon us, and the MVP Summit is immediately prior, in the same week and the same city. This is my first MVP Summit since early 2008. I’ve been invited every year, but...
View Article
