I could be a little late to the party, but I caught wind of a blog post, “Booth Babes Don’t Wear Glasses,” circulating in the Twitterverse that prompted me to investigate and I was a bit startled by some of the statements made. I was trying to wrap up my latest chapter on my current [...]

I’m pleased to announce I’ll be working with SQLSkills– Kimberly Tripp, Paul Randall, Bob Beauchemin, and Elizabeth Vitt (my friend and colleagure from the Aspirity days)–as we prepare for Katmai’s release next year. I’ll still be posting blogs from time to time here on non-Katmai related topics, but I have a new blog to which [...]

SQL Server Magazine Connections is coming again to Las Vegas in November and I’m happy to be speaking there again. Not only is it a great opportunity to meet new people and reconnect with old friends, it’s a treat to be able to go to “work” in my home town. Oddly enough, I don’t do [...]

Or not. Honestly, I don’t know where the time goes. Back in October 2006, I expected to start settling down a bit and develop a better blogging routine. One or two time warps later, I find myself five months since the last post and knee-deep in a variety of time-consuming activities after which I expect [...]

My silence since September results from the fact that I have been incredibly busy of late. In addition to some training and consulting engagements, I’ve been collaborating with Peter Myers (who will be blogging soon here) to develop a course for Microsoft targeted for application developers. The course is called BI Voyage and covers the [...]