Now is a good time to start planning your 2012 conference schedule.
The 2011 conference season is starting to come to a close. There are only a few large conferences left such as VM World, SQL PASS, and Dev Connections. Many people are currently working with their bosses to get sent to these conferences. However while going through these conversations here’s something else to keep in mind. […]
The SQL peps are invading the NETDA meeting in Redmond next week
That’s right SQL People, the .NET folks at the Redmond, WA NETDA user group has invited me to come and speak at their user group meeting on Monday August 8th, 2011 in the Building 41 cafeteria on the Microsoft Campus. I’ll be giving a session which I’ve titled “Getting Back to the Basics of SQL […]
Lookout Dallas, here I come…
I’m pleased to say that I’m one of the great speakers who will be presenting at the Dallas Tech Fest on August 12th and 13th at the University of Texas at Dallas. Sadly I won’t be able to join everyone on the 12th, I’ve got commitments in Redmond until 5:30pm Pacific Time on Friday, but […]
Slide decks from Dallas Tech Fest Sessions
This last Saturday I spoke at Dallas Tech Fest, where I had two great groups in my two sessions. As promised here are the slide decks for the two sessions which I presented. Index Internals Optimizing SQL Server Performance in a Virtual Environment I hope everyone had as good a time at the conference that […]
Interview with our new whipping boy Adrian Bethune
While at Tech Ed 2011 I spent a good amount of time talking with Adrian Bethune (@canon_sense) who is the new product manager for SQL Server Manageability, originally hired onto the team by the magnificent Dan Jones (blog | twitter) who was smart enough to run screaming from the team towards an awesome new position […]
High Availability and SQL Excursions
My third SQL Excursions session I’d like to talk about is going to be about high availability. There are lots of high availability options for SQL Server, especially when SQL Server “Denali” is one of the high availability options. In this session we’ll be looking at all the available HA options so that you understand […]