Category Archives: Personal

A Fond Farewell

Today is my last day at the company for which I’ve worked the past nine years.  So much in my life has changed during that time, and I wanted to take a moment to reflect, and honor the amazing place which has been a home for those nine years. First, I should mention that I…

A Day Full of Possibilities

As you may have read by now, I am leaving my current position and joining SQLskills.  I am thrilled to be joining the team and look forward to working with Paul, Kimberly, Jonathan, Joe and Glenn.  I expect to end every day utterly exhausted because of all the new things I’ve seen and learned.  I…

Gratitude

Yesterday afternoon I drove up to Southfield, Michigan to present to the Southeast Michigan SQL Server User Group.  Joe Fleming contacted me and asked if I would present my Baselines session, which I presented at the PASS Summit last fall.  I usually don’t pass up a chance to go to Michigan, and this was the…

In honor of Steve

Yesterday, Wednesday June 8th, 2011 marked the 1000th consecutive day of running for Steve Jones ( blog | @way0utwest ).  The SQL Community and supporting friends did an amazing job of trying to run 1000 miles yesterday as a tribute to Steve.  The final total was 454 and RedGate is donating that amount of money…