January 24, 2011 at 9:51 am
Grant Fritchey (1/24/2011)
Threadizens not on Twitter might not have heard the word. I just took a job with Red Gate. It's up on the blog.
Congrats, sir! So does this mean you won't be in Massachusetts anymore?
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January 24, 2011 at 10:17 am
Ray K (1/24/2011)
Grant Fritchey (1/24/2011)
Threadizens not on Twitter might not have heard the word. I just took a job with Red Gate. It's up on the blog.Congrats, sir! So does this mean you won't be in Massachusetts anymore?
Thanks everyone.
No, I'm staying in Mass, working from home and then traveling as necessary.
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January 24, 2011 at 10:18 am
Grant Fritchey (1/24/2011)
Threadizens not on Twitter might not have heard the word. I just took a job with Red Gate. It's up on the blog.
Congrats, Grant!
And Congrats to Steve's son as well.
January 24, 2011 at 10:21 am
Craig Farrell (1/24/2011)
You know... randomly... has anyone thought about getting their SQL Servers tweet accounts? I think that'd be the second good use for tweeting I've seen, the first being some big business announcement stuff. Forces them to de-fluff and get to the meat.
SQL Servers tweeting? The paranoid security side of me cringes at the idea of Servers tweeting out into the internet.
Then I re-read your post and become certain I misunderstood it. Elaborate, please.
January 24, 2011 at 10:35 am
January 24, 2011 at 10:40 am
Grant Fritchey (1/24/2011)
Threadizens not on Twitter might not have heard the word. I just took a job with Red Gate. It's up on the blog.
Congrats (again). Glad it all came through finally.
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January 24, 2011 at 10:41 am
Brandie Tarvin (1/24/2011)
Craig Farrell (1/24/2011)
You know... randomly... has anyone thought about getting their SQL Servers tweet accounts? I think that'd be the second good use for tweeting I've seen, the first being some big business announcement stuff. Forces them to de-fluff and get to the meat.SQL Servers tweeting? The paranoid security side of me cringes at the idea of Servers tweeting out into the internet.
Then I re-read your post and become certain I misunderstood it. Elaborate, please.
I've gotta agree here(my emphasis above). What business case does your SQL servers tweeting supply that don't get with SMS Text, emails or pages?
January 24, 2011 at 10:56 am
Luke L (1/24/2011)
I've gotta agree here(my emphasis above). What business case does your SQL servers tweeting supply that don't get with SMS Text, emails or pages?
All kinds of marketing messages. You still need a person that can respond to the other tweeps that might have a question, but remembering to send out tweets, especially for new types of content or engagement chances, can be tedious.
We use a service for SSC that schedules out tweets. Multiple people can then respond to answers, but we do want to schedule things out that we might forget otherwise, like the webinar announcements.
January 24, 2011 at 10:59 am
Grant Fritchey (1/24/2011)
WayneS (1/24/2011)
Grant Fritchey (1/24/2011)
Threadizens not on Twitter might not have heard the word. I just took a job with Red Gate. It's up on the blog.CONGRATULATIONS!
.... so, you and Steve are now co-workers? :w00t: Kilt-Wednesday every week now?
We are. They hired me just to fly to England because they know how much Steve hates it.
Let's wait until warmer weather to implement the all kilts all the time policy. It was -8F this morning. -26 wind chill. That's a bit too much breeze blowing in places it shouldn't.
Spoken like an Englishman. Real Scots wear kilts year-round.
So I hear, anyway. :hehe:
**Edit - despite my bad manners, wanted to add my congratulations to the crowd!
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January 24, 2011 at 11:07 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/24/2011)
Luke L (1/24/2011)
I've gotta agree here(my emphasis above). What business case does your SQL servers tweeting supply that don't get with SMS Text, emails or pages?All kinds of marketing messages. You still need a person that can respond to the other tweeps that might have a question, but remembering to send out tweets, especially for new types of content or engagement chances, can be tedious.
We use a service for SSC that schedules out tweets. Multiple people can then respond to answers, but we do want to schedule things out that we might forget otherwise, like the webinar announcements.
Nope marketing messages and such I understand... that's not what I was questioning. It was the suggestion of creating a twitter account for each of my SQL servers that I am having a hard time seeing a valid business case for.
January 24, 2011 at 11:20 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/24/2011)
Luke L (1/24/2011)
I've gotta agree here(my emphasis above). What business case does your SQL servers tweeting supply that don't get with SMS Text, emails or pages?All kinds of marketing messages. You still need a person that can respond to the other tweeps that might have a question, but remembering to send out tweets, especially for new types of content or engagement chances, can be tedious.
We use a service for SSC that schedules out tweets. Multiple people can then respond to answers, but we do want to schedule things out that we might forget otherwise, like the webinar announcements.
Steve, Craig already mentioned the business announcement tweets. That's not what I'm questioning. It's the other part of his statement.
January 24, 2011 at 11:27 am
Oh, I agree from a security perspective it's a bit twitchy, but I was looking at it from a maintenance point of view.
Having to rebuild operators for new/old users receiving messages, pass the phone around... etc. This gets tedious, especially on multiple boxes. Scriptable or not.
However, if your SQL Servers simple all send to a tweet account of somekind that your users can subscribe to: Server ABC11xyz - Sev 3 error (for example), you know if you need to leave your wife at the table while running your laptop to a wifi hotspot... or not.
You're right, it can be handled via texts and the like. I just wasn't sure if anyone had ever looked into doing it.
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January 24, 2011 at 11:33 am
I wouldn't mind having my SQL Servers send out messages to a group. SMS doesn't handle that, email does, but email doesn't necessarily integrate easily/quickly into messaging a group on a phone. There also can be a nice history that's easy to scan on a twitter like service.
The idea of a private twitter group could be handy for your operations group, letting them know of critical issues. Not necessarily better than SMS, but different. However I wouldn't use Twitter for this because it's not reliable. Rather something like Yammer, with a private Twitter-like service, could be handy.
SMS isn't reliable. It's like UDP, though most of the time it seems to work well.
January 24, 2011 at 11:43 am
Grant Fritchey (1/24/2011)
Threadizens not on Twitter might not have heard the word. I just took a job with Red Gate. It's up on the blog.
Absolutely awesome. I didn't believe they could raise the already high collective IQ at RedGate. I was obviously wrong. Well done, Grant!
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January 24, 2011 at 12:20 pm
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Grant Fritchey (1/24/2011)
WayneS (1/24/2011)
Grant Fritchey (1/24/2011)
Threadizens not on Twitter might not have heard the word. I just took a job with Red Gate. It's up on the blog.CONGRATULATIONS!
.... so, you and Steve are now co-workers? :w00t: Kilt-Wednesday every week now?
We are. They hired me just to fly to England because they know how much Steve hates it.
Let's wait until warmer weather to implement the all kilts all the time policy. It was -8F this morning. -26 wind chill. That's a bit too much breeze blowing in places it shouldn't.
Spoken like an Englishman. Real Scots wear kilts year-round.
So I hear, anyway. :hehe:
**Edit - despite my bad manners, wanted to add my congratulations to the crowd!
Nah, spoken like a German. Best guess, I'm only about 1/3 English. Mostly German, a tiny bit of Irish & slightly more Cherokee. And NONE of them likes wearing a kilt when it's really cold outside.
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