If you are planning on attending TechEd this year then you will have a chance to see myself and Denny Cherry (blog | @mrdenny) deliver a precon seminar. The title is “Microsoft SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization” and we are very excited to have this opportunity. And apparently Microsoft is excited to have us as well, because they are [...]
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Presenting at Tech-Ed(s) This Year
The announcements came out yesterday and I can now tell the world that I will be presenting at TechEd this year. Denny Cherry (blog | @mrdenny) and I will be doing a precon seminar at TechEd in Orlando in June. The title is “Microsoft SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization” and we are very excited to have [...]
Presenting at SQL Saturday #87 in Louisville This Weekend
This Saturday I will be in Louisville, Kentucky, to present two sessions. One of the sessions is a joint session with Tim Chapman, and it is something brand-new that has never been seen before called “Choose Your Own Adventure: Performance Tuning“. And yeah, we are very excited to be building out a series of CYOA [...]
This Just Got Crazy Real
Sitting on the plane, just a few rows back from Mark Souza, and a few rows ahead of James Rowland-Jones as we head to Seattle for the PASS Summit. We met some else on our flight heading to the Summit as well, and I know of a few folks on other planes arriving around the [...]
SQL Saturday #97 Recap
I am sitting in my usual seat (3D) flying home from the SQL Saturday event (#97) in Austin. This event has cracked my top five events for the year, despite my almost having been murdered in my motel the night before. I’m not joking. Ask anyone else who stayed there if they also felt like [...]
Derek Jeter Was Here. Well, Over There Actually.
This Saturday I will be in Kalamazoo, which I thought was the birthplace of Derek Jeter but it turns out that he was born in New Jersey and moved to K-zoo when he was four. I am guessing that as part of the speaker dinner we will also get a tour of Jeter’s childhood home [...]