Time is almost up; this is the last chance to submit your questions to Erland Sommarskog and Craig Freedman. I mean, you don’t want me to come up with all the questions myself do you? That would be considered cruel and unusual punishment.

In the Who do you want to see interviewed next? blog post I asked for some names of people who YOU would like to see interviewed. Erland Sommarskog's name was submitted in comments a couple of times. I contacted Erland and am happy to anounce that he has agreed to do this. The first time I heard of Erland Sommarskog was in the SQL Server ...

In the Who do you want to see interviewed next? blog post I asked for some names of people who YOU would like to see interviewed. Craig Freedman's name was submitted in comments a couple of times. I contacted Craig and am happy to anounce that he has agreed to do this. Before you think of any questions please visit Craig's blog ...

I have interviewed a bunch of people already, some of them on this blog and some of them on my old blogger blog before I started blogging here. Below is the list of all the people so far Louis Davidson Itzik Ben-Gan Ken Henderson Kalen Delaney Adam Machanic Interview With Stéphane Faroult About Refactoring SQL Applications Database ...

I decided to interview Stéphane Faroult, the author of The Art of SQL because it is one of my favorite SQL books. Stéphane told me he has a new book coming out soon, the name of this book is Refactoring SQL Applications and the majority of this interview is focused on that book.   How advanced do you have to be to take advantage of ...

Since I am doing scrum and other agile methodologies myself I decided to interview the authority on agile in the database world. Scott W. Ambler is the Practice Leader Agile Development for IBM Rational You can find more about Scott here: http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/bios/ambler.html   How advanced do you have to be to take ...

A couple of weeks ago, I was interviewed on CSTechCast,  a technology podcast released every Monday hosted by Eric Johnson, Eric Beehler, and Josh Jones. You can access the TechCast at http://cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=16 After clicking the ''Listen Now'' button, you'll be shown a list of Recording TechCasts, and you need to make ...

I noticed that Joe Celko has a new book coming out soon: Thinking In Sets. I decided to send Joe an email to see if he would be willing to answer some questions I had about the book and SQL in general. To my surprise Joe was more than willing to accommodate my request. The question-and-answer session with Joe that follows was conducted via email. ...

As an interview question this one reveals the mindset of the person.   “Returns more columns than needed – wastes resources” He’s concerned about the network/systems. “If you add a column it might break the app” He’s a developer. “It compromises the extensibility of the database.” He’s an architect type. “It’s hard to build a ...

This is going to be a three part series. Part 1 The phone interview. Part 2 The face to face interview. Part 3 Some tips and observations   A while back I posted that we are looking for a SQL/.NET/FoxPro developer. I did this because we had a real hard time finding this person. I am happy to inform you that we did find this person and he ...