Andy Warren

I'm Andy Warren, currently a SQL Server trainer with End to End Training. Over the past few years I've been a developer, DBA, and IT Director. I was one of the original founders of SQLServerCentral.com and helped grow that community from zero to about 300k members before deciding to move on to other ventures.

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Book Review: How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

I found How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends on the clearance rack at the local bookstore, but you...

2009-04-02

436 reads

SQLSaturday #11 Tacoma - Cancelled

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Just head from Greg Larsen yesterday that he just ran out of time to put things together. As I've mentioned...

2009-04-02

290 reads

bedpost - It's Business Time

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Further off topic than usual, but I ran across this as I browsed Springwise after a friend suggested it might...

2009-04-01

583 reads

Congratulations to MVP Grant Fritchey

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Announced today on his blog at http://scarydba.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/mvp/. Well earned in my opinion between his participation with PASS, SSC, and his...

2009-04-01

413 reads

LinkedIn - Part 2

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Recently I posted LinkedIn (part 1) about my efforts to better understand and use it as a networking platform. It...

2009-04-01

509 reads

Buying A Plane

by Andy Warren

SQLServerCentral.com

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There's been a lot of bad press about 'corporate jets' in the news over the past year. Not that planes themselves have issues, but rather many questions about whether corporations are spending shareholder dollars appropriately. It's not a simple topic, but clearly there did seem to be a lack of awareness about how those kinds of things would be perceived in difficult financial times.