Itzik Ben-Gan is in town

Not that you would know it from the page below,  but Itzik Ben-Gan is back in London to do a...

Re-blog – June 10-June 16

As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week.  Oddly enough,...

SQL Saturday Oklahoma City

Attention, southerners (or those who can find their way south)!  There’s another great SQL Saturday event coming up in August...

SQLRally, SQL Saturday and The Summit

“Gotta say it was a good day…”
-Ice Cube
On The SQL Saturday Circuit

I’ve been speaking at all the regional SQLSaturday events I...

SSMS Add-in for Analysis Services

A nice new little add-in available for SSMS on Codeplex.  It helps with repetitive tasks involved with SSAS such as processing and deployment. ...

[Speaking] Presenting at AITP Region 18 IT Con

The IT Con event this Saturday, June 18, is an event similar to SQL Saturday. It has three tracks, an...

BCPs – The Disaster Recovery Plan

I came up with a short acronym for my Preparation for Disaster presentation: BCPs. It describes what I think you...

Data Mining and Analytics hot career

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have published a list of job-market hotspots, and in the top ten is...

Gaining Speaker Experience Credentials

One of the things I saw on Twitter yesterday was several folks saying their abstract submissions had been turned down...

How Good is Good Enough?

I was running some tests on some purchased data this morning, and was getting a little perturbed because I was...