Bucharest - Amsterdam - Seattle - Bellevue - Redmond - Bellevue - Seattle - Detroit - Amsterdam - Bucharest is just the short version. The long version includes trips between various Microsoft buildings and the building where I delivered a SQL Server 2008 class. Pictures follow: Building 35     Bill Ramos   One surprise, ...

Ok, another personal post - you know the rule - don't care don't read. 15 minutes of fame? That was the 1968 phrase of the american artist Andy Warhol. I guess that now it's my turn. I can hear some of my readers thinking, yeah, yeah - keep bragging. To quote Wesley Snipes in the unfogetable movie White Men Can't Jump ''I don't mean to ...

Disclaimer: This is a personal blog post therefore you may skip it. Introduction To use George Michael words: ''It was the third of September / That day I'll always remember, yes I will / 'cause that was the day that my daddy died'' For me it wasn't third of September but thirteen August and not my father the one that died but my mother. ...

I guess you'll have another year to keep hearing the phrase at ROSQL meetings ''Cristian Lefter, SQL Server MVP'' :) Good news for Romania, we have a ''fresh'' MVP - Andrei Iacob with the Client Application Development competency. You can read more about Andrei's first thoughts about being an MVP here: '' ...

Recently I went out with Remus to eat some healthy food (pizza) and of course to drink some fruit juice (read beer). The subject of the evening was Service Broker. I won’t reproduce the whole discussion but I found interesting the following point:Many people use replication not to copy or to transfer data but as a way of communication between ...

Over the years from IT events or from various other sources I gather a lot of caps. Yesterday at a user group meeting I received a new one. The following 4 caps marks various stages of my involvement in IT: First one (from left to right) demonstrates that I'm a member of ITBoard (I'm also one of the founders). Good job Lore, I like this ...