Presenting at SQL Saturday #96

I’m honored to have been selected to present two sessions at SQL Saturday #96 in our nation’s capital, Washington DC...

Meetings as Battles

I was in a meeting recently that had some quiet tension to it, at least two different sides represented and...

WAN Optimization Solutions–Input Needed Please!

I was just wondering if anyone has a WAN optimization solution as part of their infrastructure.  I have a few...

Free Business Intelligence Workshop

If you are in and around Dallas next week drop by my FREE half-day Business Intelligence workshop.  The details are...

Get Inspired – SQL Inspire 2011 New York

Coming up next week is the SQL Inspire 2011 event in New York City. It’s an event with a number...

SQL Tribal Knowledge

Calling all unpublished* SQL Server folk!
I’m now accepting abstracts for a new project we’re putting together – a community-written book of...

SQL Server Release Services Blog and TechDays 2011- Places Worth Watching (Oh, & In Case You Missed it, SQL 2008 SP3 Was Already Released :)

Yes, SQL Server 2008 SP3 is out ...

TechDays 2011 SQL Server and Data Platform Track

Presenting on SQL Internals, Recovery Models, & Backups! OH MY Today

 Today I’m presenting “SQL Internals, Recovery Model’s, and Backups. OH MY!”, for Pragmatic Works.  I did this presentation once before...

Fame and Social Media

Reading this post about Alton Brown from Good Eats triggered me to think on the topic. It looks like initially...

10 More Days Until Inspiration! - SQLInspireNYC 2011

Can't believe we're ONLY 10 days out from what's shaping up to be quite an extraordinary awesome event!  We've been...