Sometimes you just get amazed by the response

So a couple of weeks ago Arnie Rowland started a project to give away a couple of MSDN licenses and some other goodies to some deserving out of work developers.  The big requirement being that they do something worthy of getting the stuff.

Get some storage and virtuilization training, and walk away with an XBox 360

On Monday August 9th, 2010 at the Microsoft Office in Irvine, CA I’ll be leading up an all day “Storage and Virtualization for the DBA” training session.  In addition to a great day of training, one lucky attendee will walk away with a brand new XBox 360.  There are lots of other great giveaways. You […]

Tell me more about this pre-con thing at #sqlpass.

The abstract for my SQL PASS Summit 2010 Pre-Con has been posted up on the SQL PASS website.  The abstract for my session is: This session will be a two part session in which we will be focusing on two of the biggest topics in the DBA field, how to properly design your storage and […]

Oh my god, what have I gotten myself into?

In case you aren’t on twitter, at about 5pm (Pacific time) yesterday PASS sent out the emails to the people who have had their pre/post con sessions selected, and apparently Tim Ford (Blog | Twitter) was drinking heavily because I got my pre/post con approved.  Allen White (Blog | Twitter) also had one approved.  Over […]

Portland SQL Saturday Slide Decks

It occurred to me that I haven’t ever posted the slide decks for the Portland SQL Saturday.  Sorry about that. SQL Server Service Broker in the Real World SQL Server Indexing for the Client Developer How to decide if your database is a good candidate for consolidation Denny