Category: sqlserverpedia-syndication

My Surprise MVP Party

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date January 24, 2011
Categories In News-ish, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC
6 Comments on My Surprise MVP Party

Two Fridays ago, Sean and I sat down for our weekly DBAs@Midnight webshow* as usual. Unusually, we were expecting an out-of-town guest: Wendy Pastrick (blog, Twitter). Even more unusually, about 5 1/2 minutes in, Sean surprised me with the news that I’d received the Microsoft SQL Server Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for 2011. I hadn’t […]

RTFM365, Week 7

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date January 24, 2011
Categories In News-ish, sql server, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC
1 Comment on RTFM365, Week 7

[Commence whine-a-thon, thinly veiled as an introductory paragraph to a blog.] As I knew it would, it is getting VERY difficult to keep on a daily reading regimen. It’s not because I’m bored with the project – not at all. If anything, I wish I had moretime to read. This is the leadup week to […]

Blog Sins

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date January 21, 2011
Categories In News-ish, NonSQL, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC
6 Comments on Blog Sins

Thoughts come together, and the hybridization of your thoughts give rise to new ideas. Here are the thoughts: I have this session called “T-SQL Code Sins”, where I talk about “the worst things we do to SQL code, and why”. Last night I was talking about blogging with several SQL bloggers, and one guy who […]