Just who IS AjarnMark?
My real name is Mark Caldwell.I am an IS/IT professional based in the Seattle area.I consider myself to be trilinqual, being able to speak both Geek and Executive in addition to plain English (U.
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As I'm gearing up for the PASS Community Summit next week, here are a few thoughts to make the most of the event...
Last year they gave every attendee a SQL Server umbrella.
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And here's yet another good reason to come to the PASS Community Summit in Seattle... They will have Hands-on labs using Yukon, the next version of SQL Server. There will be lab exercises provided for people to try out the new features.
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On Microsoft's SQL Server Yukon web site, there is a link to Watch SQL Server “Yukon” Demo, described as a “10-minute overview of key features and functionality“. And here we have where developers and management part ways.
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There are a LOT of people that are blogging from the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference this week. I've been reading several of the feeds (thanks to Newsgator) this week and am learning a lot.
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Damian gave a quick overview about weblogs earlier. For those who want to know even more, Dave Winer has a document posted at Weblogs At Harvard Law entitled What Makes a Weblog a Weblog.
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ComputerWorld's 2003 Salary Survey is now available online. The detailed numbers are available after a free registration, but here are a couple of points of interest for the SQLTeam community:
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A few months ago, I was introduced to the concept of RSS feeds by a weekly humor email list that I subscribe to called This Is True. I read up on the idea and learned about this aggregator software that plugs into Outlook called Newsgator.
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Reading through the DBA Overview of Yukon whitepaper that Graz mentions in his blog, there were a few items that really jumped out at me. Here are a few thoughts:
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If you use Enterprise Manager (EM) to create or edit table structures, data, stored procedures, or much of anything else, you are a rookie. Now, each one of us was a rookie at some point, and you do have to start somewhere, but if you want to be considered a professional, you HAVE TO learn the SQL syntax and get comfortable living in Query Analyzer (QA).
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My name is Mark, and I was a MV (multi-value) database user. It all began when I was in college (late 1980s) and became the IT department for a small company whose business depended on a massively outdated Prime minicomputer.
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Damian recently spoke out on versioning code, and it reminded me of a nightmare I'm involved in with versioning documentation. Yes, it's true, documents (you know, things like written specs, test plans, etc.
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Tara's response to this post on SQLTeam got me to thinking about one of my big concerns with Yukon (the upcoming version of SQL Server). Last year, one of the features that was being promoted big-time was the idea that you would be able to use the .
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Come to Seattle! This is currently my home town (okay, I'm not actually in Seattle, but close enough for the purposes of this message). It's beautiful here in the Summer, and we have the PASS Community Summit in November!
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