Episode 88
| March 22, 2017
| 60 minutes
SharePoint
Why can’t we just get along? There can be a real love/hate relationship between those of us with data responsibilities and those who are responsible for SharePoint environments. We want to provide good service to those environments, but there are SO MANY things we can’t do on a SharePoint database. To see how the other half lives, we invited Todd Klindt onto the program to give us his thoughts on how we can all get along a bit better.
Because Todd suggests the “SQL and SharePoint communities should understand each other a little better”, we will try to tackle some of the obstacles the teams face so you can be better armed to support your SharePoint team.
SQL in the news
Episode Quotes
“SharePoint is kind of like that pretty girl in High School…”
“A SQL alias is like fire or gunpowder. I have the respect for it. It’s a good tool but don’t play with it.”
“Bad things happen, stuffs is unfair, and how you handle it is the key.”
Listen to Learn
- Why the SQL Server and SharePoint teams can’t seem to get along
- Dos and Don’ts with SharePoint Server
- How you can still save the day
- The vocabulary you might use to approach your SharePoint team
- What an interesting sense of humor Todd has
Our Guest
Todd Klindt
Todd has been a professional computer nerd for over 20 years, specializing in SharePoint for the last 14 years. His love affair with SharePoint began one slow day at the office when he discovered SharePoint Team Services 1.0 on the Office XP CD that was holding up his coffee cup, and decided to install it. The rest is history. In 2006 he was honored to be awarded the MVP award from Microsoft for Windows SharePoint Services. He has had the pleasure of working with SharePoint farms both large small. He has written several books and magazine articles on SharePoint. Todd has presented sessions on SharePoint at many major conferences both in the United States as well as Europe and Asia and does the user group circuit, SharePoint Saturday events, and the occasional children’s birthday party as well.
Meet the Hosts
Carlos Chacon
With more than 10 years of working with SQL Server, Carlos helps businesses ensure their SQL Server environments meet their users’ expectations. He can provide insights on performance, migrations, and disaster recovery. He is also active in the SQL Server community and regularly speaks at user group meetings and conferences. He helps support the free database monitoring tool found at databasehealth.com and provides training through SQL Trail events.
Eugene Meidinger
Eugene works as an independent BI consultant and Pluralsight author, specializing in Power BI and the Azure Data Platform. He has been working with data for over 8 years and speaks regularly at user groups and conferences. He also helps run the GroupBy online conference.
Kevin Feasel
Kevin is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and proprietor of Catallaxy Services, LLC, where he specializes in T-SQL development, machine learning, and pulling rabbits out of hats on demand. He is the lead contributor to Curated SQL, president of the Triangle Area SQL Server Users Group, and author of the books PolyBase Revealed (Apress, 2020) and Finding Ghosts in Your Data: Anomaly Detection Techniques with Examples in Python (Apress, 2022). A resident of Durham, North Carolina, he can be found cycling the trails along the triangle whenever the weather's nice enough.
Want to Submit Some Feedback?
Did we miss something or not quite get it right? Want to be a guest or suggest a guest/topic for the podcast?