by David | Aug 25, 2023 | Events, Personal, Professional Development, SQL Server
Are you bummed that you can’t attend the PASS Data Community Summit conference in-person this November during the week of November 13? There’s lots of reasons to be there, but sometimes life tends to get in the way. Finances, travel and distance, family or...
by David | Sep 10, 2021 | Announcements, Best Practices, Business, Cloud, Events, Performance, Personal, Professional Development, SQL Server, Storage
I’m thrilled to announce my preconference training session ahead of this year’s virtual PASS Data Community Summit, held during the week of November 8-12, 2021. This event is available for registration at https://passdatacommunitysummit.com. I’ll see...
by David | May 18, 2021 | Events, Personal, Professional Development, Technology
I’m thrilled to have recently recorded a podcast with Nick Korte from Nerd Journey. He recently recorded a different podcast that talks about the journey from being an IT generalist to an IT specialist. I joke that I’m strangely both, and we recorded a...
by David | Jul 17, 2020 | Business, Personal, Professional Development, SQL Server, Technology
I have been fortunate enough to be renewed as a Microsoft Data Platform MVP for the calendar year July 2020 to June 2021. I’m honored, humbled, and thrilled that Microsoft values my little piece of the SQL Server community contributions to have awarded me this...
by David | Jun 18, 2020 | Best Practices, Business, Cloud, Performance, Personal, Professional Development, SQL Server, Technology, Virtualization
I’m thrilled to have recently recorded a podcast with Kevin3NF of Dallas DBAs called Data Bits. I had an absolute blast with it, and we laughed for over an hour with fun war stories and goofy things that I chuckle with. You should check this out if you get a...
by David | May 26, 2020 | Best Practices, Business, Cloud, Performance, Personal, Professional Development, SQL Server, Storage, Technology, Virtualization
I am thrilled to have recently recorded a podcast with our friends over at PacketPushers. The podcast, “How an IT Specialist Chooses Adjacent Competencies”, talks about how adjacencies in IT, as well as deeply intertwined technologies that compete and...
