Archive for May, 2009

SQL Saturday #7 wrap-up

Finally back in my hotel room; I’ve forgotten how exhausting it is to actually present these days.  John Baldwin and the rest of the Steel City SQL user group did an awesome job pulling this together.  These guys are a lot of fun to be around, and they really went out of their way to [...]

May 31, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication

5:30 AM on a Saturday and I’m awake….

Obviously, I’m excited about SQL Saturday 7.  I’ll post more after the festivities are over, but for now, I’m packing up and heading over.   I love geek days.

May 30, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Conferences

Announcing AtlantaMDF Reviews

Just a quick post to tout a recent sister site that I’ve started (with the help of several other AtlantaMDF members): AtlantaMDF Reviews.  Our goal is to provide a forum of book and tool reviews that would be of interest to our local PASS user group. The site has just started, with only 2 brief [...]

May 26, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, Book Reviews, Education, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web

SCRUM, Source Control, and the SQL Server Developer (Part 2)

So my last post focused on the modifications my shop has made to our implementation of Scrum without a lot of details about how we manage our code changes.  This post is intended to explain how we set up source control to support the scrum process. Source control is one of those poorly-defined practices; it’s [...]

May 20, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: SQL, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, VSTS:DB

SCRUM, Source Control and the SQL Server Developer (Part 1)

(If you’re just visiting me from SQLServerPedia, thanks for stopping by!) I recently responded to TJay Belt’s post about his Release Management process, and thought it would be better to fully explain our development cycle here.   Although I come from a DBA background, I currently work on the development side of the house in our [...]

May 20, 2009 · stuart · One Comment
Posted in: Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication

SQLSaturday #7: Birmingham, AL May 30, 2009

I’ve been so busy with all of my other projects at work that I’ve forgotten to really tout this.  On May 30, I’ll be presenting at the Birmingham SQLSaturday (hosted by the Steel City SQL User Group).  My talk is titled “Confessions of a Data integrator”, and will focus on dealing with other people’s database [...]

May 17, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Conferences, SQL

SQL Server & XML: links of interest

I’ve been working on a project recently that requires using XML in SQL Server, so I’ve been searching the web to find references. Books Online is unusually obtuse on this subject (the samples are sub-par for this complex subject), so I’ve been trying to find good examples of how it works. Here’s some of the [...]

May 14, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication, XML

Death by a thousand cuts…

This is has been an awful week; things have just not gone as planned from the get-go.  I’m gonna run through several issues in this post, and perhaps someone will find some value in them; lessons learned may help others avoid the pain of my ways.   VSTS: DB Pro This week, I’ve spent way [...]

May 14, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: SQL, SQLServerPedia Syndication, VSTS:DB

Educational opportunities a blooming….

Just in case you’re not following http://sqlsaturday.com, there’s been a few announcements of upcoming SQLSaturdays.  I’d love to go to a few of these, but we’ll have to wait and see how the economy shakes out a bit.  SQLSaturday #7 – May 30, 2009 – Birmingham, AL.  I’m still working on my slides for this [...]

May 8, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Conferences, SQLServerPedia Syndication

Gonna be some changes around here….

If you’ve been here recently, you may have noticed a new theme; I’m trying to clean up the look around here a bit. I’ve decided I want to be a little more proactive about my blogging, and decided that I wanted a new look to go with it. Why the sudden interest in blogging? First, [...]

May 4, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!