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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 1

Roy Ernest (3/16/2010)
I got my $500 yesterday. If I can write an article there, anyone here can write it for sure. 🙂

Is there a publicly-accessible link to it?

Paul White
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Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 2

It has not been published yet... I am not sure when it will get published. Maybe in couple of months since there might be others in the queue... 🙂

-Roy

Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 3

Anybody want to write an article on DBCC TimeWarp for April 1st? 😀

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 4

Paul White (3/16/2010)
Grant Fritchey (3/16/2010)
Yeah, it was absolutely top notch. Too bad he didn't write it for the Standard. I would have paid more. 😀
$500!!!
But, you must:
Have 5 years professional experience as a developer, DBA, report writer, database developer, or some other technical or functional area
Have been published formally as a writer (excludes blogs) on any of the SQL community sites (content will be reviewed as part of the abstract acceptance process) or have written a book that has gone through a technical/copy review process
Be a member of the Professional Association of SQL Server and have a profile on PASSPort
I meet exactly one of those criteria, don't know about Bob.

Or, any other white paper type publications that go through a technical review such as Microsoft white papers, or some of those from Quest.

But yeah, we're still only accepting articles from reasonably established articles. But getting three articles up on SQL Server Central isn't exactly an impossibly high hurdle. Heck, I've done it.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736281 More actions · Answer 5

Meaning that we're not discriminating?

Actually we're not. We try to get a wide variety of opinions and styles. Happy to get some people writing from the Standard after a few published here.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736281 More actions · Answer 6

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March 16, 2010 at 8:37 am

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Congrats, Lynn! Well earned and thanks for the support.

Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 7

Thanks for the information, Grant.

I am suddenly more motivated.

Paul White
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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 8

Steve Jones - Editor (3/16/2010)
Meaning that we're not discriminating?
Actually we're not. We try to get a wide variety of opinions and styles. Happy to get some people writing from the Standard after a few published here.

I've pointed a bunch of people over here. I'll actually be disappointed if you haven't received at least one new article or author out of all the ones that I've told to get in touch with you.

No, you're not that discriminating, but everyone who hangs out here sure is, and it works out the same way. It's like a free tech review from some of the best in the business (and just as painful). I need to write more for here too. I need to write more, period. Too much time doing other stuff.

As Wellington said (although, he never did), the wars against Napoleon were won on the playing fields of Eton. This is Eton.

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Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 9

Paul White (3/16/2010)
Thanks for the information, Grant.
I am suddenly more motivated.

Paul, it was a great experience for me. 🙂 It is a good challenge. It made me learn more about the topic I was writing about.

And the $$$ is pretty good as well. 🙂

-Roy

Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 10

Roy Ernest (3/16/2010)
It is a good challenge. It made me learn more about the topic I was writing about.

I imagine so. Well done!

Paul White
SQLPerformance.com
SQLkiwi blog
@SQL_Kiwi

Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 11

All my articles were published here. 🙂 This place was my stepping stone. My first article was not good I would say. But after that I was able to raise my bar a bit higher every time.

TBH, I send one article for publishing in another site and they did not even acknowledge it for nearly a month. I pulled it out of there. Afterwords it has always been here. 🙂

EDIT : Spelling

-Roy

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 12

Grant Fritchey (3/16/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (3/15/2010)
george sibbald (3/15/2010)
sorry Alvin, have to agree with Gail, jarjar has to be the most annoying character ever created in any film. Made my flesh crawl.
Always amazed me how it got past the censors.
I am one of the few that actually likes JarJar.
Yes, and you should immediately apologize and then seek counseling.

Nah, counseling just screws you up worse.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 13

Lynn Pettis (3/16/2010)
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Congrats

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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 14

Mesa needs to watch more Jar Jar Bing before I writa my first article, eh. 😛

Alvin Ramard
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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 15

CirquedeSQLeil (3/16/2010)
Grant Fritchey (3/16/2010)
CirquedeSQLeil (3/15/2010)
george sibbald (3/15/2010)
sorry Alvin, have to agree with Gail, jarjar has to be the most annoying character ever created in any film. Made my flesh crawl.
Always amazed me how it got past the censors.
I am one of the few that actually likes JarJar.
Yes, and you should immediately apologize and then seek counseling.
Nah, counseling just screws you up worse.

No argument.

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- Theodore Roosevelt

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