Posts By Andrew Karcher (Alumni)
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Dec 10Want to get started speaking in Southern California–Speak at Code Camp in FullertonOrganizing user groups and speaking at user groups in the SoCal region, I often get asked how you get started speaking. One of the best options for getting started and getting your name out there is to speak at one of the big community events such as Code Camp. And it just so happens that [...]
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Nov 10Review – SQL PASS 2010 and thoughts on SQL CommunityIt has been a week now since the SQL Pass conference finished and the ripples of conference and Denali announcements are still being felt in the twitter universe, blogosphere, and among the SQL MVPs. It some ways it felt like the SQL Team threw a huge boulder into the middle of a calm pool with [...]
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Nov 10SQL PASS Session Follow up – SSRS Standards, Templates and GuidelinesI recently had the great honor of presenting for the first time and the annual SQL Pass conference in Seattle. There was a great audience or about 50 people and lots of questions which is great. I hope everyone enjoyed the session and I am looking forward to getting the feedback from the session. There [...]
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Apr 10SQL Saturday #44 – Huntington Beach – RecapWhat a great day. It was long and tiring, but rewarding in so many ways. On Sunday morning, I was driving home and I decided to take the Pacific Coast Highway from Huntington Beach. It was a great chance to exhale and just enjoy the sun and smells of the beach (I really love SoCal [...]
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Mar 10Building KPIs to monitor your business – It’s not really about the TechnologyWhen I have discussions with people about Business Intelligence, one of the questions the inevitably come up is about building KPIs and how to accomplish that. From a technical level the concept of a KPI is very simple, almost too simple in that it is like the tip of an iceberg floating above the water. [...]
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Jan 10Utilizing Custom Fonts with SQL Reporting Services (SSRS) and Exporting to PDFI recently had a unique challenge with SSRS which was the utilization of a Custom Font on an SSRS Report. Normally, I do not think about fonts other than what get installed as system fonts in Windows so this was a fairly new experience. I know a few people who REALLY enjoy fonts in the [...]
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Apr 09Store images efficiently in SQL Server 2008Recently I was poking around with some different ways to create a scalable image store for my project when I realized, I’ve done this before. I’m working on an enterprise ASP.NET e-commerce site that lives in a web farm. The site contains a large number of images, and I would like to make these images [...]
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Mar 09Someone call a Weatherman, the Clouds have shiftedIn a move that I think is great from feature perspective, the SQL Server Data Services team has made important changes to the SQL Data Services feature. Essentially, the team is moving away from the namevalue pair implementation that was released with CTP 1 and is moving to a full relational database model. You can [...]
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Feb 09Roundup (2/15) – Things you might find interesting…So I see all these great posts during the week and I think, “I wonder if everyone else is seeing this post, this is good stuff”. Usually, I read it, file it away and think, “Yeah, I blog about it tomorrow”. So here are some posts from the last week or so that I thought [...]
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Feb 09Upcoming SoCal Tech EventsIn a follow up to Lynn Langit’s post here, I figured I would I add the details on the SQL Server Users Group and also add a few other events. I was sad that the Vista for ITPros event was sold out, but I am looking forward to hitting up a couple of the events. [...]
