Category: People and Opinions

S–3–X Talk Week: This Totally Won’t be Awkward

We’re conducting S–E–X Talk Week here at the MidnightDBA #Awesomesauce blog, in honor of everyone’s favorite subject. In deference to the fact that this is (against all odds) a professional blog, and SOME companies aren’t fond of “that” kind of talk wending its way through the office intertubes, we will be using the very clever analog […]

Dear Users…Sincerely, Your IT Guys

Dear Users, We, the tech people, understand that you just want technology to work so you can get your jobs done.  We really, really understand that.  When your technology doesn’t work, you turn to us so we’ll make it behave. We like making technology behave – we got into this field on purpose. But when […]

Breaking Into SQL Showbiz

Matthew Velic (blog, Twitter) just asked this question on Twitter: And really that’s a question I’d ask anyone on the “speaker’s circuit” – where’s the easy place to break in? Wow, Matt…in the words of the great Ricky Ricardo, lemme splain something to joo..  A year ago today, I was just a few months into […]