Social Computing for the Database Professional Jason Massie, Terremark Brent Ozar, Quest Software.

Social Computingfor the Database ProfessionalJason Massie, Terremark

Brent Ozar, Quest Software

Bachelor #1:Brent Ozar• SQL Server Expert

for Quest Software

• SQLServerpedia Ed.

• Former DBA, SAN, VM admin for $7b co.

• Blog: BrentOzar.com

• Twitter: @BrentO

Bachelor #2:Jason Massie• Manager, DBA

Services @ Terremark

• Interests include other RDBMS, the Cloud, and taking suckas to the pwnshop.

• Blog:JasonMassie.com

• Twitter: @StatisticsIO

Today’s Agenda

• Yesterday’s, Today’s, Tomorrow’s DBA

• TweetDeck

• Real time search

• Crowd sourcing

• Blogging

• Tips and tools for the hardcore

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DBAs of Yore

• Day 1: Product Released

• Day 2:We RTFM’d

• Day 3:Asked Questions Usenet, Forums

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4 Letters Changed Everything

Why This Matters to You

• Fast release cycles

• No documentation

• No best practices

• You’re on the cutting edge

Help 140 Characters at a Time

As Interesting As You Make It

TweetDeck Demo

Jason Follows People Like…

• @_StevieWonder

• @DonaldFarmer

• @Scoblizer

• Search – SQL, SQLPASS, Cloud, RDBMS, Oracle, MySQL

• And @SQLPass of course.

Brent Follows People Like…

• @SQLRockstar

• @Wendy_Dance

• @BadBanana

• @DontTryThis

• @CodingHorror

The Internets but real time

It is all about search!

• Images of the Hudson crash from the boat rescuing them.

• Live reports from events as they happen.

• The release date of XXX Server 2008 before it is official

Asking for Help Part 1

Asking for Help Part 2

The Man (?) Behind DBCC

Not Everyone Can Do This

Meet Connor

Meet Connor

“Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work.”

Crowd sourcing

• Crowdsourcing is a distributed problem-solving and production model. Problems are broadcast to an unknown group of solvers in the form of an open call for solutions. The crowd submits solutions. The crowd also sorts through the solutions, finding the best ones. - Wikipedia

Crowd sourcing examples

• Community driven new or answer sites

• Informal polls to your networks

• Wiki’s

• Open source SD projects e.g. Codeplex

Crowdsourcing Demo #2Results of our informal Twitter poll

Blogging• Wordpress

• See Brent’s blogging series

• Read, comment, link

• Etiquette

• Self hosted vs. SQL blog networks

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Blogging Demo

Social Networking Tips

• Be personable

• Keep it real. Be personal

• Don’t buddy spam

• Do not worry about “What’s in it for me”

• Focus on providing value

• 1st Lurk. 2nd Contribute. 3rd Evangelize.

Hard-Core Social Tools• Google blog search\alerts

• FriendFeed.com

• Ping.fm

• BrightKite.com

• Facebook\linkedin\plaxo\social darling

• RSS Cloud and Pubsubhubbub

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