Recap: SQL Saturday 160 (AZO) and Some Other Driving
This trip to Kalamazoo was, at first, supposed to be the front end of an epic road trip involving SQL Saturday 160 and SQL Saturday 149 in MSP. Those plans wound up scrapped when Tammy’s brother announced his wedding date on the same day as 149. Instead of spending the week between visiting friends & […]
SQL PASS Summit First Timers Webcast is in 2 Weeks
Don’t forget that my SQL PASS Summit First Timers Webcast is going to be in just two short weeks on October 17th 2012 at 1pm Pacific / 4pm Eastern (find your local time). This is the second annual SQL PASS Summit First Timers Webcast as the one I did last year was so well received. […]
SQL Saturday 157 Slide Decks and Sample Code
This last weekend we had our most recent SQL Saturday in San Diego, CA. This was SQL Saturday 157 and it was a huge success. Making this SQL Saturday even better than most was the fact that the SQL PASS Board of Directors had their quarterly meeting the days before so most of the board […]
SQL Saturday 147 Slide Decks
I had the pleasure of speaking at SQL Saturday 147 in Recife, Brazil about 2 weeks ago. I just realized that I never got my slide decks for my sessions uploaded. I gave 3 sessions that weekend. Table indexing for the .NET Developer Reading the SQL Server Execution Plan Where should I be encrypting my […]
Recommended reading from mrdenny for September 07, 2012
This week I’ve found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I’ve found this week. SQL Server 2012: Migrating BLOBs to FILETABLEs Announcements: New England SQL & Providence SQL Saturday The state and (near) future of SQL Server Compact Windows Azure Storage – 4 Trillion Objects and […]
DEFCON: Why conference harassment matters
This was reposted from The Ada Initiative http://adainitiative.org/2012/08/defcon-why-conference-harassment-matters/ written by Valerie Aurora. They get all the credit for this, not me. This weekend was DEFCON 20, the largest and most famous hacker[1] conference in the world. I didn’t go to DEFCON because I’m a woman, and I don’t like it when strangers grab my crotch. […]