Category: People and Opinions

How to Build a Resume (that doesn’t suck)

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date December 6, 2011
Categories In NonSQL, Random helpfulness, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC
19 Comments on How to Build a Resume (that doesn’t suck)

Resumes are like opinions, which are like something else: everybody’s got one. And if you don’t have one, then certain key functions are very hard to perform. In this case, not having a resume makes the job-getting difficult. We’ve talked about resumes, and even reviewed a few, on the show (here and here) and on […]

Convince me to read books (WHERE LEN(argument) <= 140)

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date November 30, 2011
Categories In Community, Random helpfulness, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC
1 Comment on Convince me to read books (WHERE LEN(argument) <= 140)

While you wait for my awesome upcoming blog on data exception notification with SSRS, let’s pursue a whim of mine. I want your techie book recommendations. Write me a tweet @MidnightDBA, or in the comments below, that compels me to read your book of choice. (Yes, you can recommend your own book.) But the tweet better […]

Un-SQL Friday: Stop SOPA!

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date November 15, 2011
Categories In News-ish, NonSQL, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, UnSQL
2 Comments on Un-SQL Friday: Stop SOPA!

This will be an unusually political Un-SQL Friday – and it’s two days early, to boot – but I’m making an exception to my no-politics-in-SQL rule – because it’s about internet freedoms. I hereby declare this WEDNESDAY Un-SQL Friday. While T-SQL Tuesday is “…the SQL Server blogosphere’s first recurring, revolving blog party….on the chosen [SQL-related] […]