It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up.  If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL).  And see these throughout the day as I tweet out links of things I find interesting.  While these links aren’t the answer to life, the universe, and everything, they often share a few things about SQL Server and related technology topics that others may find useful.

The links included in this summary are those prefixed with “Reading” and are items I’ve read over the past few days, usually after hours when sharing would be less than useful, and spaced out to avoid spamming.  The content of the links usually pertain to SQL Server, technology, and career topics; which I think others would find useful.

The Most Popular “Reading” Link

Last weeks most popular link came from the SQL Server Premier Field Engineering blog.  Denzil Ribeiro and Tim Chapman are delivering a pre-con at the PASS Summit – check it out…

Reading: "SQL PFE has a Pre-Con at the PASS Summit!" http://t.co/pukMCOQRJs #sqlpass

— Jason Strate (@StrateSQL) October 28, 2014

Last week’s almost top 20 “Reading” Links

Along with the top link, here are almost twenty items relating to SQL Server, technology and careers that were shared last week.  If you missed them throughout the week, here’s the opportunity to get caught up on some items that other’s read after I linked them out.

1. SQL PFE has a Pre-Con at the PASS Summit! [13 clicks]
2. How to Develop the People You Really Want [12 clicks]
3. Setting Your Page Verify Database Option to CHECKSUM [10 clicks]
4. The 5 Deadly Sins of the Social Age Job Search [10 clicks]
5. Script to export the configuration of SQL Server [10 clicks]
6. Microsoft announces real-time analytics in Hadoop and new ML capabilities in Marketplace [9 clicks]
7. Getting the Best Performance From an Intel DC P3700 Flash Storage Card [8 clicks]
8. The ins and outs of Apache Storm – real-time processing for Hadoop [7 clicks]
9. Are you harnessing all that in-memory can do for your business? [6 clicks]
10. Cumulative Update #4 for SQL Server 2014 RTM [6 clicks]
11. 10 Ways to Rise and Thrive After Disappointment [5 clicks]
12. SQL Server 2014 RTM CU4 [5 clicks]
13. 10 Ways to Reject Bad Failure and Embrace Good [4 clicks]
14. 4 Ways an Entrepreneurial Mindset Ignites Your Job Search [4 clicks]
15. Cloudera Selects Azure as a Preferred Cloud Platform [4 clicks]
16. Azure Data Factory Overview [2 clicks]
17. SQL CLR assembly fails verification with “Unable to resolve token” [2 clicks]
18. Get Mad But Don’t Get Even [2 clicks]
19. Hoooooraay Ozure is live – Azure DCs in Australia are now available to be selected in Azure Portal [0 clicks]

Other Stuff Shared

Of course, no week would be complete without a few off-topic links.  These have nothing to do with technology or your career, but they are interesting and worth a second look.

1. New trailer shows us what the Avengers do to pass the time [14 clicks]

Got something you think I should read and share, leave a comment below.  Also, if you want to see all of the links that were tweeted out last week?