Andy Warren

I started my SQL journey here at SQLServerCentral as one of the founders, helping to build a place to share and learn that continues to thrive under the editorial guidance of my friend Steve Jones. I've done a lot of volunteer work over the years ranging from our local SQL group (oPASS, SQLOrlando) to serving on the Board of Directors of PASS to designing and building the framework of SQLSaturday (which has gone on to produce more than 1000 locally managed events since we started in 2007). These days I manage a DBA team, but over the years I've been a trainer, consultant, contractor, and DBA. I'm rarely present on social media, the best way to contact me is here, LinkedIn, or via email.

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Networking Results

I've written quite a few posts lately on networking and a very common question is - where's the results? What do I get out of all the effort, and so far my best (if lame) answer is that networking is an investment based on faith that...

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2009-04-30

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Do You Take Notes?

I happen to notice this in a class recently that I had the rare student - one that could take notes that seemed to have value to them the next day. If you watch people take notes, I think they fall into one of these categories: The Highlighter. They have...

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2009-04-24

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PASS Update #9

Time has flown by since my last update, busy time at work and struggling to get that done and find a few hours for PASS too. Here's a short version of what I've been working on lately: Added the Top 10 List page and have some starter lists from...

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2009-04-20

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Networking = Business Cards

I've been writing a lot about networking lately and my efforts to learn/leverage LinkedIn, and along the way taken a few hits for opening up my Linked In network to include those of you who read my blog regularly and want to connect. The essence ...

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2009-04-17

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LinkedIn - Part 3

As I've covered in my two earlier posts I've been investing a little time to figure out how to make LinkedIn work for me. This time I wanted to talk about some extra tools they provide that you may find useful. One that I mentioned previously...

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2009-04-13

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