East coast MVPs, we need your help at the west coast SQL Saturday’s.
OK, everyone it’s time to come out west. There are two SQL Saturday’s scheduled for April 9th, 2011 here on the west coast. Personally I’d love to see you all show up at our SQL Saturday event down here in Huntington Beach (Orange County, CA). The weather will be beautiful (OK so I can’t guarantee […]
Don’t worry Florida, I’ll be back soon…
In case you missed me when I was in Tampa last week at the awesome SQL Saturday 62 event, all is not lost. I’ll be back at the Dev Connections March 27th-30th, 2011. I’ve got three sessions scheduled for this event. Exploring the DAC and Everyone’s Favorite Feature, the DACPAC SQL Server Clustering 101 Getting […]
When the demo’s don’t work the men and woman are seperated from the boys and girls.
So a couple of nights ago Paul Randal (Blog | Twitter), Wendy Pastrick (Blog | Twitter), Jonathan Kehayias (Blog | Twitter) and I were talking about how some of our demo’s have completely and totally failed, often in front of a live audience. As we all were chatting about our various demo’s crapping out we […]
OK everyone, it’s SQL Rally voting time
So it is time for another vote for the second category that I have a SQL Rally session submitted for. This time the vote is for the “Enterprise Database Administration & Deployment” track. I’ve got a session up titled “Using SQL Server Denali’s Always On” again in the Summit Spotlight section. The abstract for my […]
Book release must be getting close, sample pages now available on Amazon.
So, I’m guessing that my first solo book must be getting close to shipping. You can now flip through the first 11 pages of “Securing SQL Server” (preview page) on Amazon’s website. Now the images in the online preview are in color, but the book won’t be (or so I was told) so they must […]
The SQL Rally (#sqlrally) voting as started, and I’ve got a session up for vote this week.
The SQL PASS organization has taken a different approach to session selection for the SQL Rally than they normally do for the annual summit. Instead of a full program committee which selects sessions then announces them, they are leaving the session selection up to the community via a vote. This weeks voting is for the […]
