Arena go-live

Today is the day we go live on Arena.  We’ve been planning and preparing for this day since August 2007, which is 9+ months.  To track our progress, check out: Clif: www.twitter.com/clifguy Ian: www.twitter.com/cyberentomology War room live: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/clif-guy-cam Time line starting now: Shelby V5 goes down Backup V5 database Change permissions in V5 to limit [...]

Next stop on the Shelby-Resurrection BBQ Tour

Ben Lane from Shelby is here for our Arena go-live tomorrow.  Continuing our long-standing tradition, we had KC barbecue for lunch.  Despite the crude and blurry cell phone pictures, I think you can get an idea of the experience.  Yum! L to R: Linda Ronsick (data quality), Ian Beyer (cyberentomology), Matt Bradshaw (bit shepherd), Ben [...]

How to bring your powerful database server to its knees

Don’t let the mild-mannered appearance of this group fool you. We’re in our last day of Arena training before go live on Tuesday next week. Chuck is teaching the Report Builder in SQL Reporting Services. With these eager students, his first exercise was to simply select first and last name and then run the report. [...]