05Dec
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Thomas LaRock (blog|Twitter) came up with another fun topic to write about this month. What I want from Microsoft for Christmas I can’t wait to see what all my #sqlfamily peeps write about.
Well this is an interesting topic cause I’m not a devoted fan of Microsoft products. I do have my favorites Xbox 360, Windows Home Server at home and SQL 2000,2005,2008 and Express at work. I can do without office products, and the OS’s and oh yes I said Express, it’s my secret little favorite local database tool. At work getting stuff done with Access only would kill me so I cache what I need locally using SQL Express, design tables there and do a lot of data cleansing using and I mean a lot of freaking cleansing. But yeah all want I want for christmas from Santa Ballmer and Microsoft is a great reason to upgrade all my home computers to Windows 8. That’s simple enough right ????? maybe Santa will bring that oh and Roku box for my wife.
22Apr
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Earlier this month i attended my first SQL meetup called SQL Saturday #31 i’m not sure why it’s numbered 31 cause i realized they don’t go in order. But yeah so it was hosted in Elk Grove so it wasn’t to far away. I knew it was going to be a awesome day when i met this guy in the registration line who reads my site and learned a couple SQL tricks from it. How sweet is that right? So SQL Saturday is put on by the Professional Association for SQL Server and ran by volunteers.
It’s a combination of SQL Trainings, Forums, and networking events crammed into a 8 hour day. Plus I won an Xbox 360 Elite from Microsoft wooo and a copy of sql server 2008 admin pocket guide. Below are the cool sessions i attended but just there only ones. It was just the ones i was interested in. I look forward to getting out to more of the meetups this year.
- Building a Data Warehouse using SQL Server 2008
- PowerShell for Data Professionals
- Oh Cluster, My Cluster!
- How and When to Use Indexed Views
- Delivering Rapid Business Value with Microsoft BI
- Reporting Services 2008 Unleashed
23Mar
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So I logged into the xbox 360 website for first time in a couple of months and noticed a little gold crown on my profile woo finally they show me respect I guess. The weird part is….. I’ve been a gold member for the last four years since I got my 360 and prior to that I was a just a regular paying member.
