About me

Why?


First of all: why this blog. Well as I wrote in my first post I'm a software developer and the SQL Server has just been a tool for storing data for me. But now a days we have lots of developers at my company and my job is more and more maintaining the SQL Server with all the objecs residing on that.

That means that I more or less have gone from programming to DBA. To gain more knowledge the company have decided that I should take the trip from Denmark to USA to attend SQL PASS Summit 2011. And in preparation for this I meet a lot of people online - all of them very dedicate to there work as DBA. I want that :)

I will try to write about the thinks I found ground breaking for me in my work to gain knowledge on the stuff I have to work on. As well about all the things I will learn on and after summit - just as much as a way to process and store it for later use.

As a newbie I know that to much technical stuff can be confusing. So in this blog, I will really try to keep it simple. There will be a more technical and accurate way to describe the things I will be writing about - but let the guru's deal with that - I'll just try to give you enough knowledge to get on with it and then you can search for a more in-depth explanation later.

BTW I welcome that more experienced DBA write comments on my blog with more in-depth information or linked to other pages with this information.

About me

My profile picture is to remind me that you can make
everything look good (well almost) by hiding
some of the big picture. But you cant hide it
from your self

I was born Jens Røgeskov Pedersen (see why Gotthardsen was added feather down) by the end of 1966 in the great Kingdom of Denmark in a small village on the main island. At the age of 14 I think, I got my first "computer" well back then it's wasn't called a computer. I recall that it was an Atari. I of cause switched to Commandor when that arrived and to PC when that was possible. But back at the starte with the little box you should connect to the TV you had to program every game in your self. And when it was power off it was gone. It was then I started programming my self. And I have done that more or less since.

In 84/85 I was in Minnesota, USA for a year where I graduated from high school as a senior at Minnetonka High School - Class of 85. I still look back at that year with a lot of love in my heart. I have since then dreamt about going back one day.

KFOR - Kosovo 2011
Sergeant Major Gotthardsen
In French: It's a good day to die

In the start of 1987 I was drafted to the military and I must have a hard time learning :) I was there for almost 12 years. After about 6 years I got the opportunity to get an education as a software engineer and work with software development in the military. I took that chance and my hobby was now actually my living. I felt like a football player drafted to the big league.

In the very early 90's I meet Sergeant Gotthardsen in the military (a female sergeant was rear back then) and we got married a few years later. And even though I always has out ranked her at work - she was the General at home :) I even had to take her name. So Sergeant Major Gotthardsen it was.

I 1998 I decide it was time to take of the uniform and become a civilian. I started my own company but after I for a couple of years have worked full time for one customer I was hired into that company and have worked there since.

In the spring of 2011 I went back to the Military as I was station in Kosovo with responsibly for two Force Protection teams at a French camp. It was a great experiences but now I'm back at my civilian work once more.

I'm marry and have 3 kids - to boys and a girl. I play and coach volleyball in my spare time, that is when I'm not trying to rebuild our house :)