Mar 8 2013
PowerPoint, Hammers, Processed Mac n’ Cheese, and Presentation Arts I’m taking a new approach to producing presentations. In the past I’ve always come up with an idea and then spent countless hours in PowerPoint designing, writing, and conceptualizing the full presentation. Converting what may start out as fresh food for thought and over-processing it [...]
Apr 19 2012
Tomorrow I’ll be packing up my youngest son, aka #SQLTrevor, and heading to the land of Milk and Honey Beer to present at SQL Saturday 118 being held in Madison. This is my first trip to Madison, but if it’s at all like just a portion of what I’ve heard it described as it sounds [...]
Jan 9 2012
Today marks the first day of a much needed vacation. It comes on the heels of a very successful SQL Saturday I was able to take part in at Colorado Springs, CO. Besides delivering a successful presentation for the locals of Colorado Springs, Denver, and the surrounding area I was able to help out a [...]
Jan 3 2012
This weekend I’ll be bringing my little roadshow to Colorado Springs for the first SQL Saturday of 2012. This will be the swan song for my Periodic Table of Dynamic Management Objects presentation as I revamp it for the changes coming with SQL Server 2012 (formerly code-name Denali). Please join me at 8:30AM Mountain Time [...]
Sep 22 2011
Many thought I was crazy to stage a SQL Saturday in Kalamazoo. By the time it was over though there were not too many doubting that it was one of the best SQL Saturdays that have been staged. Just take a look at the numbers: 9 SQL Server MVPs 2 SQL Server MCMs 1 Red [...]
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 [...]
May 20 2010
I will be presenting on two topics at SQL Saturday #27 in Portland, OR this weekend: Backup and Disaster Recovery for N00Bs and Indexing Dynamic Management Views. It’s going to be exhausting, but fun: out of Detroit at 8pm EDT – Into Portland around 11pm PDT (that’s 2 AM “real” time folks if you don’t [...]
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 [...]
