Category: All Things MidnightDBA

Un-SQL Friday #005: Bad Interviews

Yesterday a friend told me a tale of an interview he conducted with a, shall we say, less than desirable candidate. (Most of his responses started with “Well, there was this girl, and we were at a party….”). This, again, is an Un-SQL Friday topic if ever there was one! I hereby declare this Friday […]

Speaker Lessons!! Un-SQL Friday #004 Roundup

 We had a cozy (read: small) UnSQL Friday this time around, and I’m good with that. Every entry we got was very high quality stuff, so you’re to go out and read each and every one. Roundup time! Allan Hirt (Twitter) was THE first to post, with Speaker and Audience Etiquette!  He give a great discussion […]

Speakers Lessons Learned at SQLRally Code Sins

This is my contribution to UnSQL Friday #004: Speaker Lessons Learned. I got my SQLRally session evaluation back last week. I’d given my Code Sins session, and got 84 (that’s eight-four!!!) evals back.  Overall I got very high marks: a session average of 4.648 out of 5, which is 93%.  I got an A!  Comments […]