Jonathan Gardner ← Consultant

Role Change: Geocent Technical Account Manager

Jun

2013

Things on my blog have been pretty quiet since I started my new role at Geocent running the Infrastructure practice. It was for good reason. Managing resources, managing multiple projects, doing technical sales, and creating a strategy for the practice turns out to be a very time consuming task especially when your group is experiencing ...

SQL Saturday #145 Nashville

Oct

2012

SQL Saturday #150 Baton Rouge

Aug

2012

I will be delivering my presentation Adventures in Project Management this weekend, August 4th at SQL Saturday #150 in Baton Rouge. The presentation abstract can be found below. Abstract Projects that run long, run over budget, or flat out fail always get management’s attention, and not good attention. This session will cover the project management ...

New Beginnings

Aug

2012

I want to take a moment to everyone who reached out to me both publicly and privately to wish me well on my new endeavor. It truly means a lot to me. There are many reasons that I love the SQL community and that is certainly one of them. Without further adieu…I have accepted a ...

Leaving Insource: A Farewell

Jul

2012

12 years ago I moved to Texas from New Orleans, LA to attend Texas A&M University in College Station. My time in Texas has been amazing. I have made some great friends both personally and professionally. While I have enjoyed being here, there has always been something calling me home. I can’t explain it, it ...

I’m writing a book…Pro: SQL Server 2012 Practices

Jul

2012

I have not posted on my blog for quite a while. I had some issues develop in my personal life that I had to take care of but the larger reason is that I have been working on a book project with some pretty amazing people like Chris Shaw (Blog | Twitter), Grant Fritchey (Blog ...

Securing SQL Server with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

May

2012

If it was not clear by my recent post Auditing SQL Server, I have compliance and security on my mind lately. This post is no different. While SQL Server has had encryption for some time, implementation takes significant planning and can require modification of application code. With SQL Server 2008, Microsoft introduced Transparent Data Encryption ...

T-SQL Tuesday: DBA Ethics

May

2012

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by my friend Chris Shaw (Blog | Twitter) and covers DBA’s Ethics. He posed some interesting questions on the topic. Should we have an ethics statement? As a certified project manager from the Project Management Institute, I am already bound by a code of ethics. This code applies to ...

SQL Saturday #107, Houston Afterthoughts and Lessons Learned

Apr

2012

It has been a couple of days since the event and I have had a chance to reflect on some of the things that we did well and those that we didn’t. This was our second SQL Saturday in Houston and with the Steering Committee intact from the previous event it felt like it went ...