An Interview with Allen Kinsel, PASS Board Candidate
Allen Kinsel is running for the board of directors of PASS. He took a little time to answer some questions from Steve Jones
2013-09-27
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Interviews
Don Syme: Geek of the Week
It came as a surprise to many of us when Microsoft pulled from it's hat a rabbit in the form of an exciting, radical, language that offers an effective alternative to the Object-oriented orthodoxy. The creative force behind this language, F#, turns out to be a brilliant Cambridge-based Australian called Don Syme, already well known for his work on generics in .NET. F# has taken the specialised power of ML and OCaml and developed a versatile general-purpose .NET language. We sent Richard Morris across the road to investigate.
2010-02-05
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Interview with the Scary DBA - Grant Fritchey
or our first feature on working DBAs and their lives, we selected Grant Fritchey, the self-styled Scary DBA, who has been so successful in the past year with his books and presentations. How does he manage to pack so much into his life? We sent Richard Morris to find out.
2009-11-20
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Interview with the Scary DBA – Grant Fritchey
With Halloween so near, we thought it would be a good time to find out more about the so-called Scary DBA, Grant Fritchey, who's been working in IT for 20 years now. He writes for SQL Server Central, Simple-Talk and SQL Server Standard, and was awarded MVP status earlier this year. We sent Richard Morris to meet him.
2009-11-19
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Richard Stallman: Geek of the Week
Many famous geeks work away at their programs without considering the wider implications of what they, and others, are doing. Richard Stallman isn't like that. Richard (rms) is one of the great brains behind Linux distros, as he wrote the GNU compilers and GNU debugger. He is driven by strong opinions about the nature of free software, and the restrictive nature of software copyright. We sent our intrepid reporter, Richard Morris, to find out if Richard Stallman really required journalists to read parts of the GNU philosophy before an interview, for "efficiency's sake".
2009-08-07
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Get into the Top Ten Percent
When you start applying for jobs, and face competition from other candidates, who do you think gets the interview? Is it the middle 50%? The bottom 20%? I bet you're thinking the top 5-10 candidates are granted interviews, which in today's world...
2009-07-24
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An Interview with Brad McGehee - Part 2
Continuing the interview with Brad McGehee, Robert Pearl asks about the new features in 2008 and his books.
2009-04-10
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An Interview with Brad McGehee - Part 1
MVP Brad McGehee, director of DBA Education for Red Gate Software, sat down recently with longtime author, Robert Pearl. In this interview, learn a bit about how Brad got started in the SQL Server world.
2009-04-09
3,342 reads
Gail Shaw: Geek of the Week
Gail Shaw, the fabled 'gilamonster', earned her MVP and the gratitude of a host of SQL Server professionals seeking technical help with her expert forum posts on SQLServerCentral. She brings great enthusiasm to everything she does, and has a huge influence on the communities she joins.
2009-03-25
2,216 reads
SQL Server Interview Questions for a Network Administrator
We are looking to grow our team and we are interested in finding out what a reasonable set of questions would be for Network Administrator candidates that also state that they can support SQL Server. Do you have any suggestions?
2009-01-29
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Blogs
A New Word: Mottleheaded
By Steve Jones
mottleheaded – adj. feeling uneasy when socializing with odd combinations of friend and family,...
Democratizing Core Contributions: A Guide to WordPress.org Badges
By Rob Sewell
In the WordPress community, badges aren’t just for scouts.
Microsoft Purview GA menu’s
By James Serra
The new data governance features in Microsoft Purview are now being made generally available...
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