Oct 31 2012
I’ll be presenting five sessions over the next week or so at SQL Connections in Las Vegas, Portland SQL Saturday, and the Professional Association for SQL Server Summit in Seattle. I am taking a couple of days off (gasp!) to visit the Grand Canyon for the first time too in order to do things like [...]
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 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 13 2010
I was able to bang away at Lightroom this weekend and get almost all the remaining photographs posted from our scouting trip for SQL Cruise Alaska 2011 posted: Ketchikan Juneau Glacier Bay are located out on Flickr now for your review!
Sep 9 2010
The next batch of photos are up at Flickr for our first day at Sea. We departed from Seattle at 4 on Satuday and spent Sunday in its entirety cruising through the inside passage. I was able to do something I had not done in a long time – nothing (requiring a computer). Yoga, spinning, [...]
Aug 9 2010
Anyone who even casually reads this blog knows all about SQL Cruise by now. If not, then there is an every-growing wealth of information about this endeavor that Brent Ozar (Web|Twitter) and I just produced last week. We had an amazing cross-section of cruisers on this first SEA-QL training event: senior-level consultants, experienced DBAs, and the [...]
Jul 6 2010
Hi. I’m Tim. We may have met here before but it’s been a while. Sorry about that. I needed a life. For a day. You see, I’m finally in the last stages of writing my first and only book. I toss in my sleep with Dynamic Management View-based queries in my head. I hear the [...]
Jun 16 2010
I learned that I was able to teach Itzik Ben-Gan something about SQL Server and Oracle. I’m wearing adult diapers until the thrill wears off. This may be sometime around when I’ll need to start wearing adult diapers for other reasons. I learned I wanted one of these. Thanks Buck Woody (twitter|web)! I learned that [...]
