Tyler's Intro

Ok, so here goes my first post to the PC Slayers Tech Blog.  Albert and I have been consulting with each other regarding SQL and other technology related items, and recently I had the idea to create a technical blog that we could both author as a combined effort to share our knowledge.  I've been a lurker on the interwebz for most of my life, rarely leaving comments or posting any original content of my own, but now that I've grown in my skills I feel more comfortable to share my knowledge so that others can find it useful as well.

Most of the skills I've acquired have come from either teaching myself tricks to feed my need for optimizations and efficiencies or from searching the web as my source of guiding material.  I had to read and while I've browsed through some SQL and C# books, I've hated it so.  My background comes from taking Relational Databases and Java Programming undergrad classes at the University of North Florida.  I've had many jobs with Technical Support for the most part, but as my jobs grew in complexity I fell more into SQL and the related applications.

Some of my experiences I plan to share:

• I now have a good deal of experience with SQL Management Studio writing queries to analyze issues with configuration or data population.  
• I've worked a decent amount with Partitions, Fact Tables, Compression, Dynamic SQL etc.  
• I've worked with SQL Server Reporting Services to write ridiculously complex custom reports for clients, as well as internal reports.  
• I've worked with IIS 6.0 to setup and maintain websites.
• I've learned some really neat things in Microsoft Excel.

I'll be posting some of my tips and tricks and hopefully they'll be of use to people!