SQL PASS 2011 Day 1 Keynote
Today was the first day of the SQL PASS summit. Starting the day with the keynote where a Laptop was given away to a member of the audience by Mark Souza (Twitter) the founder of the SQL CAT team. Ted Kummert was our keynote speaker for this mornings keynotes. Before Ted come onstage there was […]
SQL PASS 2010 Day 0
Yesterday was my first day at the SQL PASS summit. Normally I don’t have anything official to do on that day, however this year was different. This year I was allow to present a pre-con at the summit. The pre-con was a heck of a lot of work to put together, but it was a […]
Dev Connections was a blast
This week was my first dev connections conference. The conference was a bit bigger than I thought it would be, and I had a blast. The couple of sessions that I went to where excellent, but I wouldn’t expect much else from Paul Randal (Blog | Twitter), Kimberly Tripp (Blog | Twitter), and Buck Woody […]
VMware 4.1 has some “great” security “features” when you upgrade
So after I upgraded from VMware’s vSphere 4.0 to 4.1 I ran across an awesome “feature”. Apparently for security purposes VMware’s vSphere decided that after the upgrade no one can log into the server except for root, and the vpxuser (the account that the vCenter server uses to log into the hosts). Given that root […]