I’m writing this blog post from my bed, you may think that’s a little too much information there is a good reason for telling you this as it provided the inspiration for this post. I hadn’t been feeling particularly well at the tail end of last week but pushed on (as you do) as there were [...]
Blimey, doesn’t seem like a year since I wrote my last end of year review End of year review 2010 and goals for 2011
Things didn’t quite go to plan, mainly because of an unexpected career change this majorly shifted a number of my priorities which meant that some goals were re-prioritised, others were replaced and some [...]
Unfortunately, it’s an all too common event in I.T. these days to hear DBA’s complaining about developers and vice-versa, each not understanding the others point of view. Some time ago now I was approached by a developer to help with a performance issue he was having. We sat down, discussed how the process worked at the [...]
In my last post “January Goals Update” I promised that I would write a few lines on my experience of taking the 70-433 SQL Server 2008 Database Development MCTS exam. I know not everybody is a big fan of the certification process but it does have it’s merits, Brad McGehee summed them up very well in [...]
The reason I haven’t written a blog post in a while is that I’ve been trying to make some real headway with the goals that I set in my last post: ‘End of year review 2010 and goals for 2011’. One month on I thought I’d write a few words on how I’ve been getting along….
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Last year I set myself a number of career goals which were more around certifications and learning than anything else, whilst this is very important and I feel passionately about learning I have realised over the last 12 months that this is not the only thing that I should be concentrating on.
A lot has happened this [...]
Today is a one of those days that I feel really has to be celebrated, hence the fanfare – all good celebrations start with a fanfare! If you haven’t heard Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland then you can listen to an extract of it here. I’m sure you’ll recongnise it once you hear [...]
If you’re in the U.K. and work with SQL Server chances are you have heard for this and may have even registered, for those of you who aren’t subscribed to the #SQLBits twitter tag, here’s a brief overview of what SQLBits is and why you should attend. [...]
