Category: People and Opinions

Beating Busy-ness: Consulting as a Feast

In addition to the actual work, which is great, a consultant also takes care of their own invoicing, taxes, contracts, status updates for various clients, etc., etc…all of the grease and gears that keep the engine of a company going.  Or, you know, they hire someone to do it, but either way it’s more stuff […]

Interviews with Great SQL People – Authors, MVPs, many more

I’m trying really hard to write a blog that goes over all the great #sqlpass interviews we’ve done, but work keeps happening. Pfft. If you didn’t know, we interview great folk at #sqlpass: @ItzikBenGan, @SQLRunr, @brianknight, @billramo, @GFritchey & more in 2009… Interviewed @mrdenny, @sirsql, @gfritchey, @way0utwest, @mark_AzureCAT at #sqlpass 2010… And so on. Find ALL […]

#TribalSQL: A new book by new voices in SQL Server

Two years ago, we were talking about how cool it would be to get a bunch of unpublished authors to write about what they thought was important about databases. You know, tribal knowledge. So we sent out a call for abstracts and got the ball rolling on one of the coolest things we’ve ever been a […]