Excited to be presenting at virtual GroupBy Conference for the first time on Thursday, during the North America time slots. I just finished tuning up this old presentation that I've presented dozens of times. It's been a great learning tool for me throughout my career and informative for DBA's and Developers at any level of experience. This time I packed in some new SQL Server 2019 content as well, so I'm looking forward to demoing both my old classic hand-tooled jokes as well as fresh new content.

In all this time though, this is the first I'll be presenting this slidedeck to a virtual audience, so be sure to use the chat window to give me a lol or a groan every now and then. I've already made the slide

deck available here and I'll be ready to roll on Thursday at 1pm Central.

Later Thursday afternoon, I'll be presenting a second webinar, Think Like a Certification Exam, in the PASS Career Development Marathon. Hope to see you online there as well!

You can register for this free all-online conference here. Here's the GroupBy conference lineup:

North America - October 10th   9:00 PDT | Aaron Nelson  Azure Data Studio  SQL People 10:00 PDT | Bob Pusateri Locks, Blocks, and Snapshots: Maximizing Database Concurrency 11:00 PDT | William Assaf  SQL Admin Best Practices with DMVs 13:00 PDT | Collin Lysford  Demystifying Dynamic SQL 14:00 PDT | Erik Darling  The SQL Server Performance Tasting Menu 15:00 PDT | Mohammad Darab Big Data Clusters for the Absolute Beginner