Tuesday

PASS Performance Virtual Chapter - Parallelism and Performance - Are You Getting Full Return on Your CPU Investment? - Adam Machanic

Thursday

SQL Lunch - Analysis Services Security - Devin Knight

I'll be trying to catalog these as I find them, so if you know of training that… Read more

Tuesday

Pragmatic Works - SSIS Management for the DBA - 11 AM EDT - Brian Knight

PASS Application Development VC - The Benefits of SQL Azure - 12 PM EDT - Aaron Stanley King

 Wednesday

PASS Database Administration VC - Using XML to Query Execution Plans - 12 PM EDT… Read more

This will start a new trend on my blog. Every Friday morning I'll have a blog post covering the free SQL Server-related training I know about for the following week.

Tuesday

Pragmatic Works - Mid-Level PowerShell for DBAs and Developers - 11 AM EDT - Sean McCown

Wednesday

Quest Software - Performance… Read more

I went through the exercise months ago where I tried to re-organize my blog reading to be more efficient at it. And while that helped some, the truth of the matter is there are a lot of blogs I just never got around to reading. I may have subscribed to them for… Read more

A heavy week for SQL Lunch with two presentations!

There is another SQL Lunch presentation scheduled for today at 12:30 EDT. Join SQL Server MVP Patrick LeBlanc as he covers two new features in SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services.

On Wednesday SQL Server MVP Andy Leonard is up covering… Read more

I'm going to try and do a better job of announcing free training and learning opportunities. With that said, there's a SQL Lunch presentation today at 12:30 EDT:

Looping in SSIS by Brad Schadt

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All three licenses of Visual 2010 Ultimate with MSDN have been claimed, and here are the winners:

• John Pertell (twitter | blog)
• Jeff Rush (twitter)
• Peter Schott (twitter | blog)

Here are the questions and their respective answers:

What is a lamb roll?

A… Read more

UPDATE: The three licenses have been claimed!

Like other MVPs and Regional Directors, I've got three licenses of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN to give away. These are Not for Resale (NFR) licenses that will need to be activated within about 180 days. I'm all about encouraging community… Read more

There is a fine line between auditing and attacking. The line actually is one built based on authorization. Same tools, same techniques. So before you begin auditing anything, make sure you have authorization to do so from someone who is imbued by the organization to legally give it. You want… Read more

Yesterday was a scary time for the Kelley family. Our youngest, our five year-old daughter, suddenly had a rash everywhere. My wife and I talked about it briefly over the phone and decided it would be best to get her seen immediately. So Kim took our daughter to one of… Read more