Category: Community

SQL Tribal Knowledge

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date November 1, 2011
Categories In Community, News-ish, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC
11 Comments on SQL Tribal Knowledge

Update 12/3/2011: The abstract submission window is now closed. Thanks, and watch this blog for updates! Calling all unpublished* SQL Server folk! I’m now accepting abstracts for a new project we’re putting together – a community-written book of tribal SQL Server knowledge. Theme The general theme I’m proposing is “write about the thing that a […]

Un-SQL Friday #006: Living in the Intertubez

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date October 20, 2011
Categories In Community, News-ish, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, UnSQL
2 Comments on Un-SQL Friday #006: Living in the Intertubez

We’ve had some BIG fun this week, relatively speaking, with #SQLSue and #SQLIdiot and just general #SQLcraziness. We’ve had several blogs out already, including my Rat Sues Corn! … and Why I Feed Trolls, Jorge Segarra’s heartfelt We Are Community, and Steve Jones’ Is my blog infringing on anything? Meanwhile, Redgate’s space on the web – from DBAInSpace.com, to the […]

Why I Feed Trolls

Warning: Contains offensive language, and me. In a word, because it’s fun. There are some standard rules to being on the internet, right? Stay on topic in forums, no brainless name-calling, Wheaton’s Law. And there are rules for dealing with trolls…stay professional, disengage as soon as possible – these things take away their power. If […]