Saturday, August 28, 2010

Wandering Wilbo writes a biography at request of the Microsoft Corporation.

Wandering Wilbo is a database administrator for a manufacturing
concern on the Lake Michigan Coastline. He has worked with Microsoft
databaseapplications since the early days of Microsoft Access 2.0.
Once in 1996, he pulled a Visual Basic solution off a set of Tech Net
cd roms, modified it, offered it up to his superiors and looked like a
hero for a full three months. He has enjoyed reading online technical
information since the days of Deja News, and didn’t know he was
witnessing a juggernaut rolling when Google acquired it. One day in
1999, a reply post from Neil Pike saved his consulting career. He
remembers a newsgroup in 2004 where SQL Server developers worldwide
competed to code stored procedures to spec in the least amount of
time, and missed it sorely when the spammers found it and ruined it.

In 2006, he worked in an office down the hall from the 7-11 Slurpee
lab. Although he calls his mom at least once a week, he deeply misses
Microsoft MOM. When not building Analysis Services applications in
BIDS or fixing errant SSIS jobs, he employs his advanced business
intelligence skills to find and experience every musical, theatrical
and poetical event along the former West Michigan Pike, from Michigan
City, Indiana to Cross Village, Michigan.

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