SQLRockstar – Name That Caption Contest

February 2, 2010

Recently Tom LaRock aka SQLRockstar launched a contest to promote his new book and its supporting website.

The contest involves coming uo with a caption for the banner image on the site.  You then have to blog your suggestion with a link to the contest and then put a link to your blog in the comments of his post.  I really enjoy these creative exercises and couldn’t pass up a chance to win his new book, so here it goes…

My official recommendation is:

“A World of Data Awaits”

or

“A World of Databases Awaits”

If you have a suggestion, follow the link to Tom’s site and follow his steps for entering.  I look forward to reading all of the other entries.

PASS Summit 2009

November 3, 2009

As many people know, I’m currently in Seattle at the 2009 PASS Summit.  Its been a busy week so far, and things are just getting started.  Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending a pre-conference seminar presented to bestselling author and “Small Talk Expert” Don Gabor.  What an experience!  I learned a great deal of things that seem like simple concepts, but I had never thought about before.  Something as simple as smiling and not crossing your arms to make yourself more open and approachable.  He also taught us a few tricks that he uses for remembering peoples names and he had us try it out.  The results were quite impressive.  At the close of the session we received a copy of his book “How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends“.  I look forward to reading it and suggest that if you ever get the opportunity to attend one of his seminars, don’t pass it up.


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