Sep 22 2010
I’ll be speaking at this month’s PASS DBA Virtual Chapter meeting today at 2pm Eastern on the subject of my Top 10 List of SQL Server Mistakes and Missteps. This presentation takes on a whole new meaning for me as I embark on a new job and get to see how other environments that I [...]
May 25 2010
Thank you Portland, Oregon and all those associated with puting together and participating in SQL Saturday #27 on 5/22/2010. I would personally like to thank the anonymous, but freakishly tall gentleman who attended my last session of the day and was somehow able to reach the projector on the ceiling in order to restart it after [...]
Apr 17 2010
I find myself sitting in the back of Jeremiah Peschka’s (web|twitter) session on Internals of The SQL Query Optimizer looking back on two presentations I conducted earlier today. Both ran long – 1 due to starting late, the other because it was just too damn big. Overall things went well. My shrinkingisbadandyoumustnotdoitorkittensaredevouredbyalligatorswhicharefedtobiggeralligatorswhicharethenrunoverbydrunkentruckers did not produce [...]
Apr 16 2010
As always seems to be the case I’m still changing up my newest presentation right up until the last minute. Yes, tomorrow I’ll be delivering two presentations here in Elk Grove, IL – where apparently the 1970′s never came to an end according to the bar I’m sitting in now surrounded by Teamsters and locals [...]
Mar 5 2010
Want some free training? Want some free training from upwards of 18+ SQL Server MVPs and local SQL Server Professionals? Well come join me in Charlotte, NC tomorrow for SQL Saturday #33! I’ll be presenting two sessions: Harnessing the Power of Lazy: How to Automate Your Way To Success As A DBA Dynamic Management Objects [...]
Jan 31 2010
Thank you Grant Fritchey, Adam Mechanic, David Waugh, and all the others behind SQL Saturday all the way up to Andy Warren! I had a great time presenting at SQL Saturday #34 (Boston) and learned some nice things to take back to the office first thing Monday morning. About to board a flight to Chicago [...]
Jan 29 2010
Looks like Mother Nature is into giving certain IT professionals the old Reverse-Cleveland Steamer. Yep, she dropped a big ol’ pile o’ cold poo on this SQL Server Presenter’s (and other’s) chests yesterday, causing the folks behind SQL Saturday #30 in Richmond to postpone until April 10, 2010. This unfortunately coincides with Spring Break here [...]
Jan 26 2010
Tonight is the first meeting of our reboot of the WMSSUG. The information is listed below. Hope you can attend! We will have an audio line on reserve if we see that the computer-based audio is dragging down performance on the presentation. I’d like to thank Blue Granite for offering to host the event and [...]
