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  1. Funny Things You’ll Hear at the “Leadership for IT Professionals” at the 2011 SQLRally

    Register now! WWW.SQLRALLY.COM The 2011 PASS SQLRally is just about one month away and it’s high time I highlighted some of the important things you’ll be hearing about in my precon seminar Leadership and Team Management Skills for the IT Professional. Just to set the context ...

  2. 7 Essential Habits of Successful DBAs

    There are many different paths you can travel on the journey to success. There is no precise route that everyone can or should follow. The environments we manage are different, our customers are different, we are each different. There are many different ways of performing our art. It’s one ...

  3. SQL Rally Still Only $349 Until 4/30/2011

      If you're on twitter, follow the #SQLPass hash tag and @briankmcdonald for up-to-date information.   You may have heard that PASS is introducing a new, regional conference this spring. It’s called PASS SQLRally, and it’s taking place May 11-13 in Orlando. I’m excited to be speaking, and ...

  4. Meet The SQLRally Precon Presenters

    There's just a few more weeks to go until the inaugural PASS SQLRally (May 11-13) in Orlando and there are still seats available for the Pre-conference seminars. Attendance is capped at 100 people per room and we're just a few seats shy of selling out both the BI ...

  5. And the winner of the SQLBits8 Pub Quiz is… [drumroll please]

    Wow – what a great trip through Europe!  SQLBits8 was in beautiful and sunny Brighton, which everyone local to the area assures me that it’s not usually either.  The crowd was large and enthusiastic. We did two rollickin’ fun lunch time vendor sessions, one being the SQL Pub Quiz.  (I ...

  6. How SQL Excursions came to be

    Every company has a story about how they got started.  Some are interesting, some are surprisingly standard.  Here’s how the company known as SQL Excursions came to be. Back in November 2010 Kris (twitter) and I were having dinner (at … Continue reading →

  7. Datetimeoffset And Time Zone Awareness

    I've been working a lot with the datetimeoffset data type recently so today's SQLServerCentral.com article The SQL Server 2008 Datetimeoffset Data Type caught my attention. It's a good read if you're unfamiliar with datetimeoffset, as is The Death of DateTime? from Bart Duncan's blog ...

  8. SQL Rally (Are you going?)

      So I just learned that I am heading to the SQL Rally this year in Orlando. I am curios if you are going and if you are going what are you looking forward to? I was thinking back to Seattle last November and got to thinking about meeting all ...

  9. SQL Server Reporting Server service does not start | Object reference not set to an instance of an object

    The month of April has been too hectic for me. Earlier it was Incident Management at Office and Toddler Management at Home. This month People Management also got added to the list because of my role change. As a result even though I had quite a few items to blog ...

  10. SQL University – HA/DR Week

    Welcome back to another week of SQL University. The winter season is behind us and Spring has sprung (finally) and that’s why I haven’t been wearing pants or shoes since March 21st. Give it a try yourself and you’ll be surprised as to how the promise of ...

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