Category: sqlserverpedia-syndication

How to Prove a Fact (Again)

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date September 29, 2010
Categories In sql server, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, Tips
15 Comments on How to Prove a Fact (Again)

Sean’s latest rant – about a vendor with a dangerously small amount of SQL knowledge – has spurred me to talk about a common theme I’ve been seeing lately: Proving facts to ignoramuses*. How to Prove Facts to the Unbeliever State the fact. Explain the fact. Restate the fact. [Realize here that they won’t listen […]

Journal: SQL Saturday #52

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date September 27, 2010
Categories In SQL Saturday, sql server, SQLPASS, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC
2 Comments on Journal: SQL Saturday #52

Friday 6am – up to catch an 8:30 flight. My daughter Lisette is going with me on this trip. 9:30am local time, we arrive in CO. Grab a car and head north to Fort Collins for Beau Jo’s pizza, free loaner bikes from the Bicycle Library, and general sightseeing. BEAUTIFUL flower garden on the university […]

Breaking Into SQL Showbiz

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date September 20, 2010
Categories In 24HOP, NonSQL, NTSSUG, SQL Saturday, SQL Saturday, SQLPASS, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, Twitter
9 Comments on Breaking Into SQL Showbiz

Matthew Velic (blog, Twitter) just asked this question on Twitter: And really that’s a question I’d ask anyone on the “speaker’s circuit” – where’s the easy place to break in? Wow, Matt…in the words of the great Ricky Ricardo, lemme splain something to joo.. A year ago today, I was just a few months into […]