As a few of you know, I took the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM): SQL Server 2008 lab at this year’s PASS Summit. Now, I’ve been working on this certification for a while. With the knowledge exam, I failed before retaking and passing. A couple months later, I took the lab and failed that, learning that [...]
Wouldn’t it be nice if failure was an option? You could go along in life, screw it all up and then do a little shake and get a do-over. Well, it seems when it comes to Microsoft certification exams, they are offering just that. Microsoft Learning has announced that the Second Shot exam program is [...]
Over the last few days, you may have noticed that there’s been a bit of talk about a SQL Server MCM Study Group. In fact, Robert Davis (Blog | @SQLSoldier) tweeted about it the other day when he provided some sample corrupt databases. You may be wondering, what is this study group on yammer? Let’s [...]
Last month, I started using Meetup to schedule SQL Server Study Group events. The idea is to meet twice a month with people that want to just talk about SQL Server and help fill in the holes in their knowledge. Unfortunately, due to a recent move and a personal development retreat coming up, I will [...]
For the past few months, I’ve been openly working towards the SQL Server MCM. I failed a couple times (written exam and lab) and passed one time (written exam). As part of working towards the MCM, I’ve been getting together to study with some friends and members of the local SQL Server community. To make [...]
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Since I’ve been blogging about my progress through the SQL Server MCM certification, it makes sense to follow-up with my latest failure. If you’re new to these posts, check out my posts on failing, retaking, and then passing the SQL Server MCM Knowledge exam. Took the Lab A couple weeks back, after some prodding from [...]
I’ve been counting down the days until I get the score from my second attempt at the SQL Server MCM written exam. When I last took it, I knew there were some areas that I didn’t know the answers. But for the vast majority of the exam I felt good. In fact, I felt that [...]
Yesterday, I went in for my re-take of the MCM written exam. If you recall, I failed the exam last time. I did a great job of failing, in fact, and only received a 522 on the exam. I didn’t share my score previously because it was a bit embarrassing. And honestly, I wasn’t sure [...]
Week five and it seems like time is going by faster than I had expected it would. As I mentioned in the first post, I’ve already failed this exam once and am not really up for failing again. This week our MCM study group has decided to read the following items and discuss them at [...]
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