Transcript Twitter – a Swiss Army Knife for the SQL Server Professional Andy Lohn @SQLSquill 5/17/11

Twitter – a Swiss Army
Knife for the SQL
Server Professional
Andy Lohn
@SQLSquill
5/17/11
Who am I?
SQL Server Development DBA at
Medtronic
 Started working with SQL in 1998
 Director of Technology for PASSMN
 Blog - www.sqlfeatherandquill.com
 Twitter - @SQLQuill
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Some uses for Twitter and SQL
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Tell people what you had for
lunch
Communicate/network with
others and share info
Promote your
blog/website/product
Get immediate help from MVPs
and SQL experts
Read about what's going on
and what’s coming in the SQL
world
Twitter Basics
Micro-blogging
 140 Character limit
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How to get started
– Sign up for an account
at www.twitter.com
– Fill in the bio
– Add an image
Twitter Basics
User’s URL = twitter.com/<<username>>
 Follow people
 @, RT, D, #
 Links – bit.ly, goo.gl, tinyurl, etc.
 Images – twitpic, yfrog, etc
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Where to find SQL Server
resources?
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Start following a few of the big names see
who they interact with
– StrateSQL, onpnt, PaulRandal, KimberlyLTripp,
BrentO, etc
Wefollow.com http://wefollow.com/twitter/sql
 SQL lists of others
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– BrentO\SQL
– StrateSQL\SQL or StrateSQL\SQL-MVP
#sqlhelp
Use this hashtag to get help with a SQL
Question.
Lots of technical people keep an eye on this
and help each other.
Use only for technical questions.
SQL Twitter users love #sqlhelp, don’t abuse
it.
Brent Ozar has written a couple posts about
dos and don’ts.
Tools - TweetDeck
TweetDeck – www.tweetdeck.com
Desktop application/organizer for Twitter
Tools - Paper.li
Paper.li – the efficient way to see what’s
happening on twitter
Tools – tweet-sql
tweet-sql - www.tweet-sql.com
TSQL style twitter client
Tools – Twitterfeed
http://twitterfeed.com/
RSS feeds to your twitter account
Other Tools
RSS feeds
 Powershell scripts
 Wordpress plugins
 Four Square
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More Info
Check my website for all the links
www.sqlfeatherandquill.com
@BrentO’s The Simple Twitter Book
www.BrentOzar.com/twitter