Conference Time! The SSWUG Fall 2010 Virtual Conference is coming up. On October 20-22, you can attend a conference from the comforts of your living room, office, or couch. And while you are at it you’ll get to sit in on some incredible presentations, interaction with speakers, and chat with other attendees. All of this … Continue reading SSWUG Fall 2010 Virtual Conference This Month
Earlier this week, PASS opened up the Schedule Builder for the those that are registered for the PASS Summit. You can also take a look at the full schedule with the At A Glance schedule. This is your opportunity to find out what sessions are going to be when during the summit. And for those … Continue reading PASS Summit Schedule
Are you ready for Seattle? Have you registered for the PASS Summit? Hopefully with some good reasons you will be inspired to attend the summit this year. Ten Reasons to Attend There are, of course, countless reasons to attend the PASS Summit in November. To hopefully inspire a few of you holdouts, I am count … Continue reading To Be There Or Not To Be There
Have you taken the time to plan a fall get-away for some free SQL Server training? You can do this through some of the one-day SQL Server training event happening across the country. These are great opportunities to learn more about SQL Server and network with your peers that are using it every day. Whether … Continue reading SQL Saturday Glory
Go get the popcorn and let's get ready to watch some PASS sessions! Last month PASS hosted an event called 24 Hours of PASS. In this event, there were 24 back to back webcasts that focused on SQL Server and more specifically SQL Server 2008 R2. As if that weren't awesome enough, you can now … Continue reading You Thought You Missed 24 Hours of PASS
I was a little slow at submitting this year, but this afternoon I submitted my ideas for sessions for PASS Summit 2010. If you aren’t aware of this conference – it’s probably the best way out there to learn a ton about SQL Server while networking with the people that use it daily and helped … Continue reading PASS Summit 2010 Submissions
Last week I spoke at TechFuse 2010 and my topic was Getting to Know Your Indexes. I thought I’d throw up a link to the presentation materials from the event. TechFuse was a lot of fun and I got to spend some time chatting with Dan English (twitter | blog) and Lara Rubbelke (twitter | … Continue reading TechFuse Presentation and Speaker Rankings
Sure, you could say that making a Jack Bauer reference for the 24 Hours of PASS event is corny and expected. But then you’d be right and I’d have to actually use my creative juices. So we’ll agree on a détente of sorts and just move ahead. Coming up next month… on May 19 beginning … Continue reading A Jack Bauer Event In The Making
It was bound to happen, a launch event for the upcoming release of SQL Server 2008 R2. This is a great thing because it means we’ll be able to play with the cool new toys in production soon and start getting our client’s upgraded. I do wonder though if there are talking dolphins in these … Continue reading Discover SQL Server 2008 R2
The SSWUG Spring 2010 Virtual Conference is coming up. On April 7, 8, and 9, attend a conference from the comforts of your living room, office, or couch. And while you are at it you’ll get to sit on on some incredible presentations, interaction with speakers, chat with other attendees, make new contacts, lots of … Continue reading SSWUG Spring ’10 Ultimate Virtual Conference
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