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Why Participating in a Community is Important and Beneficial

Back in 2000 I began writing for swynk.com in hopes of learning more about SQL Server and beginning to make a name for myself in the SQL Server community. That was a little over seven years ago. As SQLServerCentral.com came online, I transitioned to it, writing articles and contributing heavily in the...

Posted to K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security (Weblog) by bkelley on 01-03-2008
June Midlands PASS Meeting Canceled

We are canceling the June Midlands PASS meeting because the speaker (me) is still under the weather. I'll post in a later message about the July meeting. Technorati Tags: SQL Server | Microsoft SQL Server | SQL Server 2000 | SQL Server 2005 | Professional Association of SQL Server | SQLPASS

Posted to K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security (Weblog) by bkelley on 06-07-2007
Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting for June 6, 2007

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, June 7th, at 6:30 PM. Training Concepts will once again be our gracious host. I'll be speaking on the following: Title: Making the SQL Server Security Model Work for You SQL Server has a very robust security model with ownership chaining, cross-database ownership...

Posted to K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security (Weblog) by bkelley on 05-29-2007
Volunteering

I've spent my spare time the last few weekends helping a non-profit called Fast Forward here in the Columbia, SC area. I don't post this here to blow my own horn but rather to point out the need many non-profit organizations have for quality IT support. Most non-profits operate on a limited budget meaning...

Posted to K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security (Weblog) by bkelley on 05-21-2007
Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting Tonight

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, May 3rd , at 6:30 PM. Training Concepts will once again be our gracious host. Our speaker will be Sean McLean of DBA24Hrs ( http://www.dba24hrs.net/ ) . His presentation is: DBLaunch/SQLNitro - Deployment/Management/Compression tools designed with you in mind DBA24Hrs...

Posted to K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security (Weblog) by bkelley on 05-03-2007
Midlands PASS - April 5, 2007 Presentation posted

The presentation How to Be a Consultant has been posted to the Midlands PASS Chapter website . The presentation was given by Midlands PASS Vice President and Treasurer, Ben DeBow, of CounterLogic.com . There's a lot of great information on succeeding as an independent consultant from one who has been...

Posted to K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security (Weblog) by bkelley on 04-15-2007
Midlands PASS Job Board

In order to assist those members of the Midlands PASS Chapter looking for new positions, I have put up a job boards page here: http://www.truthsolutions.com/midlandspass/jobs.htm Positions will stay up for two weeks or when the original submitter tells me the position is no longer available, whichever...

Posted to K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security (Weblog) by bkelley on 02-26-2007
Midlands PASS Site Online

I have put the Midlands PASS site online temporarily at Truth Solutions. You can reach it here: http://www.truthsolutions.com/MidlandsPASS/ The slides from Paul Shearer and Bill Stevenson's presentation, Performance Monitoring for SQL , has also been posted to the site. This is from the most recent meeting...

Posted to K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security (Weblog) by bkelley on 02-12-2007
Midlands PASS February Meeting Postponed

We are postponing due to the weather. Training Concepts has shut down for the day due to the wintry mix. Their personnel has offered to come back and open the doors if we wanted to hold the meeting, but in the interest of everyone's safety, we'll postpone the meeting until next week. Therefore: February...

Posted to K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security (Weblog) by bkelley on 02-01-2007
Midlands PASS February Meeting

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, February 1 , 2007, at 6:30 PM. It'll be at the Training Concepts facility once again. With respect to swag, I have the following Microsoft Press SQL Server books to give out . We'll do the standard drawing to award the books. Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: The...

Posted to K. Brian Kelley - Databases, Infrastructure, and Security (Weblog) by bkelley on 01-30-2007

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