Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 5

More notes, many from a chat with Kendal.
We wish we could see the open rate on email and an...

Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 6 (Seminars)

Seminars (aka “pre-cons”) have been part of the DNA of SQLSaturday going back to #1. For those that weren’t there...

Collation: Confusion

I started reading about collations after I had a recent run in with them. As I read I started to...

Data Quality Matching in SQL Server

Every IT person is more than introduced to the problems of integration – in the ideal perfect world we could join...

Friday Followup For May 2, 2014

It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...

Hekaton 2014 – The Saviour vs The Lost Cause

With the release of the SQL Server 2014, Microsoft has finally unleashed their long-time in work In-Memory solution (codenamed XTP...

Reblog: April 25 to May 1

Photo credit – Jenn and Tony Bot
Sometimes old stuff is just as cool as new stuff. Over the past few years,...

Sabbatical Decisions

My employer, Red Gate Software, offers a sabbatical to their employees, and this year I’m taking mine. I’ll be gone from...

Speaker of the Month, May 2014

Whoa! Another month gone by already? I guess I better pick a speaker of the month then. I went to...

Speaking at #SQLSat307 in Iowa City!

I just received confirmation I will be speaking at SQL Saturday 307 in Iowa City on June 7th!

 I will be...