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Notice the bluetooth ear piece fashion faux pas? Yes, she's truly a geek. I'm happy to report that Barbie is now a cognizeti, a digerati, ... yes even an IT Professional! This year's new Barbie is Computer Engineer Barbie . Several months back, I encouraged Read More...
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David Straithairn as the great Edward R. Murrow in the 2005 film "Good Night and Good Luck" Journalists are important. In my opinion, they're very important . The best journalists, like Old Testament prophets, speak truth to power and reveal the ugly Read More...
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Before I jump onto the Goals and Themeword meme started by my buddy, Thomas LaRock ( blog | twitter ), I decided I'd spend a few minutes looking back on both the year 2009. (From a personal standpoint, the 00's were my most difficult decade yet. Major Read More...
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I was honored to be recently interviewed by the crew at Consortio Services. You can find my portion of this particular webcast at http://www.cstechcast.com/podcasts/cs-techcast/episode99/ beginning at 17:24. In the interview, I discuss a number of thoughts Read More...
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In the Sequels for SQL series, I point you to sites where you can go beyond the nose-to-the-grindstone resources that we see every day as SQL Server professionals. (My favorite resource for pan-SQL Server pointers is Steve Jone's Database Weekly email Read More...
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I'm starting a new series called Seven Sequels for SQL. In this series, I point you to seven sites where you can go beyond the nose-to-the-grindstone resources that we see every day as SQL Server professionals. These are the story that comes after and outside (the sequels) of our daily working lives (the other SQL). Let's broaden our horizons together. Read More...
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I was happy to hear that the magazine Database Trends and Applications had recently relaunched their website . While I'd been a columnist there for a quite a while, I'd never been able to easily find my own articles nor check to see if they'd generated Read More...
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...when a major news magazine that speaks to a large number of CEOs and gray-haired types whose closest contact to email is having their admin send a message for them, it's important to the world at large. Really important. Read More...
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Windbelts - The Next Cool Energy Technology Start here to see this revolutionary new technology! I'm not kidding - this is a huge game changer! Whether you like it or not, our energy landscape is changing. Our children's energy needs will incorporate Read More...
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You've probably heard by now that Microsoft just announced at TechEd 2009 the next release of SQL Server, called SQL Server 2008 R2, will have a focused set of features around BI self-service and some enhancements in multi-server management. SQLMag has Read More...
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Although I blog at least once a week on average, I've always been the sort of blogger who spends a lot of time thinking about my blog posts. In effect, I've treated them like small magazine articles in which I write up the blog post, reread it, tech edit Read More...
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There's a lot of talk at the moment that Amazon is forcing self-publishers to use its own publishing centers in order to stay listed with the powerhouse Internet sales site. For example, this blog post Has Amazon Gone Mad by Rick Jelliffe rather aptly Read More...
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I'm not sure whether I should be suprised, disturbed, or complacent. But this morning, I was greeted by a couple major acquisitions in our overall market segment of Database and Application systems. First off, Oracle has made another major acquisition, Read More...
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For those of you who attended our fun and informative PASS session last year on "Surviving the Data Avalanche" and VLDBs, you might be interested in attending this year's panel discussion on Virtualization. Here are the details: Virtualization and SQL Read More...
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The scuttlebutt that I’m getting from the attendees and exhibitors is rather uniform, and less complimentary... Read More...
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