Category: Community

PASS Summit Code of Conduct – my thoughts

The big furor today is over PASS‘s new written Code of Conduct. I’m going to crib unashamedly from Nic Cain’s blog post “Mind Your P’s and Q’s” to get this started, because he’s a friend and won’t mind (especially with the link), and because it’s a busy day, so I’m going to shortcut this. People are most […]

Dear #SQLAwesomesauce: Is this idea batsh** crazy?

I’ve been out of town and off the grid – nothing like 10 days of family camping and roadtripping to unwind! – and now I’m back in black. Well, black polka dotted jammies, but that’s beside the point. I received this email while on vacation, with a request for anonymous reprint.  Take a look, then weigh […]

SQL Cruise! SQL Saturdays! Summit! SQL-SQL-SQL!

We’re drawing to the end of our third season of DBAs@Midnight (our weekly webshow by DBAs, for DBAs), and to the middle of the summer. What on earth shall we do for the next few months? We considered taking a break from all things SQL*, then thought…naaaah. So far we’ve lined up, three SQL Saturdays, the PASS […]