@AndyLeonard: “You got your SSIS in my Twitter!”
@JessicaMMoss: “You got your Twitter in my SSIS!”
That’s right, like peanut butter and jelly, we’ve got a hookup that produces better than the sum of its parts.  Andy and Jessica will be unveiling their magic at their PASS session on Wednesday at 3pm in room 602.  I’ll be [...]

PASS has posted the list of candidates, but there’s no bio info yet.  Fear not - the community is doing a great job of not just keeping up, but getting ahead!  I love communities in the age of social networking.
TJay Belt is doing a great job of centralizing information about the candidates for PASS Board. [...]

If my blog entry yesterday about my job as a SQL Server Expert at Quest Software sounds cool, then listen up: I’ll let you in on how to get a job like this.
Be Really Passionate About Your Field
I have the coolest job in the world - for me. My job would be absolute torture [...]

Things I found interesting this week:
SQL Server Links
PASS Summit 2008 Event Calendar - Rob Boek put together a calendar of the parties and events going on next week in Seattle for the Professional Association for SQL Server Summit.  I’m psyched, despite having to take four plane flights in the next 48 hours to get there.  [...]

Repeating this post from last month because I found out there’s still room available:
This year at the PASS Summit in Seattle, Quest Software is sponsoring an expert panel event on automating SQL Server processes. Sounds boring, right? Think again - here’s when you need to check out process automation:

You can’t hire help (either [...]

When I was a DBA, before I got this “rock star” job, I didn’t have the time to get involved enough with the SQL Server community to really know the people running for the PASS Board.  I had a “real job”, and when I cast my vote, I was basing my decision off a paragraph [...]

I loved the flash-in-the-pan band Semisonic, best known for - okay, only known for - their hit song Closing Time. I thought the rest of their stuff was just as brilliant (She’s Got My Number is one of my favorite songs ever), but I was in the minority, because they disappeared off the rock [...]

A while back, Bryan Oliver, David Gugick and I went to Redmond to take part in a SQL Server 2008 auditing and compliance lab.  JC Cannon and other Microsoft SQL Server 2008 pros talked about the new 2008 features that help DBAs with their SOX/HIPAA/PCI/etc compliance needs.
I’ve dealt with some of these regulations in a [...]

What if you could sit down with these guys and ask ‘em any questions you wanted:

Tom Casey, Microsoft SQL Server BI General Manager. Tom’s giving the Thursday keynote about SQL Server’s business intelligence strategy beyond SQL Server 2008.  My guess (and this is only a guess, not based on any behind-the-scenes info) is that [...]

In the latest Voice of the DBA podcast (love the outtakes at the end, totally awesome), Steve Jones of SQLServerCentral talks about his use of Twitter.  Like a lot of folks I know, he’s struggled to find the real-world benefit of it, and I really applaud his honesty.  Twitter’s one of those things like MySpace [...]