SQL PASS Summit 2013 1st Timers Webcast is TODAY!
Just a reminder that TODAY is my SQL PASS Summit 1st Times Webcast for the 2013 PASS Summit. The webcast is at 1pm PST / 4pm EST. I’ll be using GoToMeeting this year, and the URL for the webcast is https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4906797491661003009 (THIS URL HAS BEEN CHANGED). Just sign in at the meeting time (or just before) […]
SQL PASS 2013 1st Timers Webcast
It’s a little late in coming, but I’m happy to announce that I’ll be presenting my SQL PASS 1st Timers webcast for the 3rd year in a row. The webcast will be via GoToMeeting this year. The webcast will be on September 25th, 2013 at 1PM PST / 4PM EST. Just fire up the old […]
A week of using my Surfii (when you have more than one Microsoft Surface)
So while at the TechEd North America conference Microsoft gave the attendees, speakers and booth staff the ability to purchase some Microsoft Surfii (surf-I) at some major discounts. The Surface RT was available for $99 US and the Surface Pro was just $399 US. Needless to say I purchased both of them. I’ve been using […]
Atlanta SQL Saturday PreCon
At the upcoming SQL Saturday in Atlanta, GA I have the honor of delivering a precon on database security which has several seats still available. This precon is a full day session where we will be talking about all the security best practices. Signing up for the precon is pretty simple, just do to the […]
Keeping Your Speaking Commitments
Many event organizers are way too polite to publicly admit that this problem exists as badly as it does. But a problem has been showing up way to much recently. The problem which I speak of is session speakers not showing up for their sessions, and the even bigger problem of speakers not showing up […]
Deleting LOB Data and Shrinking the Database
While attending SQL Saturday 194 in Exeter over in England one of the attendees came to Mladen Prajdić, Andre Kamman and myself with an interesting problem. She had a database table which was about 200 Gigs in size which she wanted to delete about half of the data from the table. The catch was that the […]