Category: SSC

That thing you want to do? Do the thing.

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date July 29, 2017
Categories In Career, Community, People and Opinions, Random helpfulness, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC

You’re thinking of starting a blog, or teaching, or training videos. Will it pay off? Will it be worth it? Could he keep up with it? Will you end up embarrassing yourself? Let’s talk.

Celebrate! Second Anniversay Giveaway (is now over)

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date July 18, 2017
Categories In Minion, Minion by MidnightDBA, News, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC

Two years ago, we officially became MinionWare and launched the absolutely masterful SQL Server management solution, Minion Enterprise. For a few days, we’re giving it away.

There’s no substitute for mentoring

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date July 18, 2017
Categories In Career, People and Opinions, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC

There’s no substitute for mentoring. We’ve heard it before, and in various ways, but I think we tend to largely ignore it. Americans, at least, aren’t used to a mentor system, and we’re not in the habit of asking for mentors. But mentors can be great. You can stop them mid-sentence and say, “wait, I […]