The BoiseCodeCamp and TechFest will be held Saturday, March 28th at Boise State University. This free event include 57 one-hour sessions covering a wealth of topics, including software development, networking, Windows virtualization, robotics, project management, OSX, agile practices, web design, C++, C#, SQL Server, and much more.

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If you are interested in speaking at the devLINK Technical  Conference in Nashville, TN, August 13-15th, you need to get your speaking proposals in no later than March 13, 2009. Visit www.devlink.net for more information.

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Microsoft has introduced a new website (part of Microsoft.com) called Thrive. It is still in its infancy, but its focus is on Career Care (professional development), Technical Competency (certification and enhancing your skill set), and Business and IT Alignment (how to align company and IT’s goals).

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If you use Data Dude (Visual Studio 2008 Team System Database Edition GDR), you might want to check out Gert Draper’s new website, DBProj.com. Gert used to be the Software Architect and Engineering  Manager of Data Dude, and he has started a new website focused on the product. While… Read more

As some of you may know, I am writing a new book called High Performance Index Maintenance. As an experiment within the SQL Server community, I have been asking for DBAs to provide feedback on the books contents.

In my first blog about this topic, I asked people to… Read more

I have always been of the personal opinion that all SQL Server tables have a clustered index. As part of the research I am doing on a new book on High Performance Index Maintenance, and on heaps specifically, I ran across this SQL Server Best Practices Article from Microsoft.… Read more

Registration for SQLBits IV, to be held in Manchester, England on Saturday, March 28, 2009, is now open. This free event is billed as the largest SQL Server conference in the United Kingdom, and it offers 28 different sessions, in 5 tracks, on many different aspects of SQL Server. See… Read more

Microsoft has published a white paper called SQL Server 2008 White Paper: Analysis Services Performance Guide that you might find interesting.

It focuses on:

• Enhancing Query Performance
• Enhancing Processing Performance
• Turning Server Resources.

If you are involved in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services at all, you will want to read… Read more

Over the years, I have dealt with a lot of third-party applications (and their vendors) that use SQL Server as their back-end databases. It has often been an uneasy relationship, fraught with pain and tribulation. The overriding feeling I have gotten from most of these vendors is that they could… Read more

There are only a few more days before the call for speaker for European PASS ends, on Saturday, February 7th, 2009. If you want to submit a session, visit call2speakers.european-pass-conference.com/.

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Microsoft has just released the SQL Server 2008 Books Online (January 2009) update.

To download the 144 MB file so you can install it locally on your computer, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=765433F7-0983-4D7A-B628-0A98145BCB97&displaylang=en

If you just want to access the online version, visit: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd408738.aspx

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If you are interested in speaking at DevTeach/SQLTeach in Vancouver, BC this June 8-12, you have until February 10, 2008 to submit your speaking abstracts. This event offers 136 different sessions, so there is lots of opportunity for you to speak within your topic of expertise.

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