About Jeremiah

I'm a senior database administrator with Cass Information Systems, a SQL Server MVP, director-at-large with PASS, and I also help out with my local chapter and the Application Development virtual chapter.

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Archive for the ‘Professional Development’ Category

Knowing and not Knowing

In the IT field, people have the expectation that we’ll always have an answer or a solution. The problem is that we usually don’t have the answer. A lot of the time, we don’t even have the beginnings of a clue. Your reaction when you don’t have an answer speaks volumes. I’m going to use [...]

Goals for 2010

Thomas LaRock thought it would be fun to tag me in yet another round of blogging bingo, this time to answer the question “What are you Goals and Theme Word for 2010?”. To tell the truth, I have not made any kind of New Year’s Resolution for a number of years. I usually review my [...]

What is Your Biggest Weakness?

David Stein started a fun little game of blog tag and zapped Brent Ozar who, in turn, zapped me. The challenge here is to answer the interview question “What is your biggest weakness?” David’s answer was that he loves to jump straight into code. Brent’s answer is that he only wants to do things that [...]

Shameless Self Promotion

or How to get Yourself Adopted from the Animal Shelter
A Trip to the Humane Society
Way back in 2001, I took a trip to the local humane society. Ostensibly, I was going there with my girlfriend at the time to look at kittens. We were resolved about not getting a cat that day. This story wouldn’t [...]

Links for the Week of 2009.10.23

I came across a lot of great links in the last week. So many that I had to cut about 40% of them to make this list.
As always, you can check out the firehose at my delicious bookmarks page.
SQL Server

CSS SQL Server Engineers : SQL Server Urban Legends Discussed – Common SQL Server myths [...]