About
Mike Fal – The Author
“I claim this planet in the name of Mars! Isn’t that lovely? Hm?”
Welcome to the part of the blog where I stick my little flag down in the internet and tell you all about who I am and what I hope to accomplish here. So without further ado…
Who am I?I’m a SQL Server Database Administrator with 10+ years of experience. I am currently employed as a SQL Server database administrator within the healthcare industry. Over my career I’ve worked in several different industries, mostly on SQL Server, but I’ve also done some work with Oracle, Netezza, and MySQL.
What do I do?Well, like I said, I’m primarily a SQL Server DBA and focus most of my time and energy on that. It’s mostly just an outgrowth of being a tech geek and finding that playing with databases is a ton of fun. I’ve worked on failover clustering, performance tuning, and security auditing, along with the typical gamut of database development. Of course, this is just some of the recent developments. The one thing I love about this job is there’s always something to learn and more stuff to figure out.
Is that it?Well, no, not really. Outside of work, I love skiing, biking, hiking, and general outdoors stuff. I also play bass trombone locally and am a member of a community big band.
I also read. I LOVE reading.
And this blog?I created the blog to give me a place to organize my thoughts on working in SQL Server world and share them with the community. You pick up so much information over the course of your career, and it doesn’t help anyone unless it gets shared. Now while I plan to write about the things that are current to me, don’t hesitate to contact me with questions or comments. If I can’t answer it immediately, then the research to answer the question will likely result in a pretty good blog post or two.
Thanks for stopping by!
3 Comments
Hi Mike
I wanted to take a minute to thank you for the time you took out of your schedule to present at SQL Saturday 94 in Salt Lake. I really enjoyed your presentation on managing and auditing SQL server permissions. I look forward to taking the things I learned and applying them at work.
Is there any chance you could send me a copy of your slide deck?
thanks again
Ray
Cool stuff in your blog!
Just for info Subscribe via email doesn’t work for the moment!
Mike,
I meet you at SQL Saturday in Colorado Springs and sat through your Table Partition session. I am the Co-Chair of the PASS Data Architecture Virtual Chapter.
Do you want to present this session for this Virtual Chapter?
DataArch.SQLPass.org
The webcast is the 3rd Thursday of each month, and it can be around the noon hour or at night.
We have a Feb 2012 speaker, but we need a March or April speaker.
Are you interested?
Thanks,
Thomas